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Surnames across time can indicate when a family arrived in or departed a region. Families may have grown and prospered, emigrated en masse or simply "died out" leaving no one with that surname. In the case of Nassau County, families often moved back and forth across the St Mary's River, into Camden County, Georgia.

Currently we have collected about 7500 names on this website, including 2354 surnames. Keep in mind that some of the records are for the same individual - for example, a child in the 1850 census might have been included in the later marriage index and then in the cemetery index.

The Top 16 Surnames listed below with the totals for each family. As always, different spellings should be examined, and we have not "corrected" the data for potentially misspelled names in documents as it may have been the preferred spelling of the family at that time. We should note that the data at this time do not include the very large Bosque Bello Cemetery on Amelia Island, and only partial results of the 1895 census.

Top 10 Surnames in Nassau County, Florida Records
Last Name 1850 Census 1895 Census Bride Last Name Groom Last Name Cemetery Wills GLO Index Civil War Index CSA Musters Total
Higginbotham 60 148 31 16 85 4 3 8 0 355
Jones 1 84 34 29 110 2 10 3 6 279
Braddock 53 64 19 12 75 0 10 5 0 238
Johnson 12 26 26 27 125 0 2 0 7 225
Davis 0 14 16 16 146 0 6 3 5 206
Haddock 24 28 8 13 110 0 1 7 0 191
Williams 0 20 52 33 31 4 0 1 2 143
Wingate 42 10 9 9 62 1 2 3 0 138
Green 6 16 7 7 85 1 0 1 3 126
Crews 8 3 3 4 102 0 1 1 0 122
Hodges 0 14 2 3 87 0 1 1 1 109
Thomas 6 15 5 9 59 0 1 2 3 100
Thompson 0 22 6 8 58 0 0 3 1 98
Sikes 0 5 4 2 83 0 0 2 0 96
Vanzant 9 0 3 2 80 0 0 0 0 94
Geiger 32 3 0 1 52 0 0 1 0 89

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