Nicolay Surname
Approximately 7,100 people bear this surname
Nicolay Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1,488 | 1:54,103 | 7,030 |
| Belgium | 1,302 | 1:8,830 | 1,251 |
| United States | 1,203 | 1:301,296 | 27,772 |
| France | 1,059 | 1:62,722 | 8,580 |
| Brazil | 641 | 1:333,969 | 12,850 |
| Argentina | 278 | 1:153,753 | 12,988 |
| Netherlands | 156 | 1:108,251 | 17,376 |
| Luxembourg | 142 | 1:4,088 | 561 |
| Philippines | 134 | 1:755,509 | 74,327 |
| Canada | 116 | 1:317,634 | 29,153 |
| South Africa | 105 | 1:515,978 | 41,519 |
| Spain | 92 | 1:508,174 | 25,386 |
| Indonesia | 63 | 1:2,099,194 | 130,130 |
| Australia | 48 | 1:562,410 | 41,290 |
| Switzerland | 48 | 1:171,102 | 15,661 |
| Uruguay | 39 | 1:87,994 | 8,905 |
| England | 33 | 1:1,688,426 | 69,999 |
| Portugal | 28 | 1:372,080 | 12,265 |
| Chile | 14 | 1:1,258,320 | 22,898 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| New Zealand | 12 | 1:377,360 | 28,765 |
| Mexico | 11 | 1:11,284,200 | 41,789 |
| Northern Ireland | 11 | 1:167,731 | 8,683 |
| Paraguay | 8 | 1:904,593 | 9,127 |
| Denmark | 7 | 1:806,388 | 43,211 |
| Venezuela | 7 | 1:4,314,868 | 39,591 |
| Colombia | 6 | 1:7,962,345 | 23,614 |
| Russia | 6 | 1:24,020,509 | 493,300 |
| Italy | 5 | 1:12,231,338 | 126,430 |
| Mali | 4 | 1:4,242,259 | 2,433 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Ecuador | 2 | 1:7,952,923 | 34,269 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Falkland Islands | 1 | 1:3,132 | 317 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 12 | 1:2,031,281 | 60,933 |
| Scotland | 4 | 1:935,804 | 21,348 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:1,568,416 | 19,290 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 135 | 1:371,990 | 28,019 |
The alternate forms: Nicolaÿ (17) are calculated separately.
Nicolay (1,657) may also be a first name.
Nicolay Demographics
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Nicolay Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nicolay Come From? nationality or country of origin
Nicolay is more commonly found in Germany than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as: Nicolaÿ. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nicolay? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 69,710th most numerous last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 1,026,415 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 62 percent of Nicolay live; 59 percent live in Western Europe and 31 percent live in Gallo-Europe. Nicolay is also the 189,202nd most commonly occurring forename internationally. It is borne by 1,657 people.
The last name Nicolay is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is borne by 1,488 people, or 1 in 54,103. In Germany Nicolay is most common in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 25 percent are found, Hesse, where 21 percent are found and Saarland, where 20 percent are found. Beside Germany it exists in 47 countries. It is also found in Belgium, where 18 percent are found and The United States, where 17 percent are found.
Nicolay Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Nicolay has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Nicolay last name grew 891 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it grew 275 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Scotland it decreased 50 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Nicolay Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Nicolay are 14.97% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 61.74% being registered with the political party.
The amount Nicolay earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 98.22% more than the national average, earning R 471,036 per year; in United States they earn 10.62% more than the national average, earning $47,733 USD per year and in Canada they earn 12.27% more than the national average, earning $55,781 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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