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The BILLINGSLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,460 2876 0.004 42
United States (1880 census) 1,390 4096 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +10070 +1220 +0.001 +14
Other Countries
Australia 121 12028 0.001 7
United Kingdom 725 6736 0.002 16
Top States for BILLINGSLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,159 2148 0.006 56
Alabama 859 919 0.019 193
California 746 4120 0.002 22
Tennessee 689 1341 0.012 121
Ohio 589 2462 0.005 52
Top States for BILLINGSLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 859 919 0.019 193
Arkansas 500 726 0.019 187
Tennessee 689 1341 0.012 121
Mississippi 336 1321 0.012 118
Oklahoma 304 1620 0.009 88

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

Classification and Origin of BILLINGSLEY

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 BILLINGSLEY 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 BILLINGSLEY 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 BILLINGSLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 205 1.79
White (Hispanic) 126 1.1
Native American/Alaskan 52 0.45
Asian/Pacific 29 0.25
White (Caucasian) 7,948 69.35
Black/African American 3,101 27.06

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

Meaning of BILLINGSLEY in historical publications

BILLINGSLEY. A parish in co. Salop.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BILLINGSLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BILLINGSLEY.

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 BILLINGSLEY

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