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The BERKLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,514 6864 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 1,420 4025 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +3094 -2839 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 87 16038 0.001 5
United Kingdom 359 11284 0.001 8
Top States for BERKLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 370 5630 0.002 18
Virginia 342 2700 0.005 48
California 326 8538 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 295 5344 0.002 24
Florida 286 7054 0.002 18
Top States for BERKLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 35 1796 0.006 61
Virginia 342 2700 0.005 48
Kansas 117 2935 0.004 44
Kentucky 169 3053 0.004 42
Tennessee 229 3413 0.004 40

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BERKLEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BERKLEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BERKLEY in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BERKLEY by picking someone at random in Washington DC than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BERKLEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BERKLEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BERKLEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BERKLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 88 1.95
White (Hispanic) 83 1.84
Native American/Alaskan 35 0.78
Asian/Pacific 10 0.22
White (Caucasian) 3,079 68.21
Black/African American 1,219 27

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BERKLEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BERKLEY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BERKLEY.

Similar names to BERKLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BERKLEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BERKLEY

The following words are slight variants of BERKLEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.