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The BIRLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 185 92217 0 1
United States (1880 census) 63 43555 0 1
Change since 1880 +122 -48662 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 28 40483 0 2
United Kingdom 523 8576 0.001 11
Top States for BIRLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington 55 14348 0.001 9
California 17 120041 0.000 1
West Virginia 13 10395 0.001 7
Texas 12 81589 0.000 1
Oklahoma 9 28680 0.000 3
Top States for BIRLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington 55 14348 0.001 9
West Virginia 13 10395 0.001 7
Iowa 8 37878 0.000 3
Oklahoma 9 28680 0.000 3
Oregon 7 53751 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of BIRLEY

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 BIRLEY 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 BIRLEY 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 BIRLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 177 95.68
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) None reported 0

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

Meaning of BIRLEY in historical publications

BIRLEY. Tlie cradle of this family is the township of Balderston, co. Lancaster, where the lands of Birclogh or Byrlogh belonged to them, in or before temp. Edw. XL B.L.G.

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 BIRLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BIRLEY.

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 BIRLEY

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