Nice Family History
Nice Name Meaning
English (Essex) and French: nickname from Middle English, Old
French nice ‘foolish’, ‘simple’ (Latin nescius
‘ignorant’). In the 14th century the English word also acquired the
sense ‘wanton’ and in the 15th century ‘coy’, ‘shy’, both of which
meanings may be reflected in the surname. The sense ‘fastidious’,
‘precise’, ‘minute’ developed only in the 16th century, probably too
late to have given rise to any surnames, and the present-day sense of
general approbation is not clearly attested until the late 19th
century.Americanized spelling of German
Neis.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Nice Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Nice families
 84 - 165  29 - 83 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Nice families
|
128 - 254 43 - 127 |
1 - 42 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nice families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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