Nikolajevs Surname

314,252nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,195 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Latvia
Highest density in:
Latvia

Nikolajevs Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Nikolajevs Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Latvia1,1251:1,822192
United States261:13,940,728505,428
Estonia191:69,56912,771
England71:7,959,723202,100
Australia51:5,399,140162,351
Ireland21:2,354,47019,715
Denmark21:2,822,35876,882
Germany21:40,252,730481,636
Thailand21:35,319,172966,191
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Ukraine11:45,522,696503,646

The alternate forms: Nikolājevs (1) are calculated separately.

Nikolajevs Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Nikolajevs Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Nikolajevs has its highest incidence in Latvia. It can also be rendered as a variant: Nikolājevs. Click here to see other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Nikolajevs? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 314,252nd most numerous last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 6,098,365 people. It is mostly found in Europe, where 97 percent of Nikolajevs live; 97 percent live in Northern Europe and 96 percent live in Baltic Europe.

This last name is most frequent in Latvia, where it is borne by 1,125 people, or 1 in 1,822. In Latvia Nikolajevs is primarily found in: Riga Planning Region, where 51 percent reside, Latgale, where 23 percent reside and Kurzeme Planning Region, where 12 percent reside. Excluding Latvia it exists in 13 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 2 percent reside and Estonia, where 2 percent reside.

Nikolajevs Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Nikolajevs surname are 13.44% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 66.67% registered to vote for the party.

Nikolajevs earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 4.63% more than the national average, earning $45,146 USD 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
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Nikolajevs
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