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The BLACKLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,064 22555 0 4
United States (1880 census) 336 13101 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +728 -9454 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 533 3021 0.003 33
United Kingdom 798 6272 0.002 17
Top States for BLACKLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 266 3817 0.003 33
Virginia 78 9117 0.001 11
New York 74 25583 0.000 4
California 50 44207 0.000 1
South Carolina 50 7688 0.001 12
Top States for BLACKLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 266 3817 0.003 33
Utah 37 6451 0.002 17
South Carolina 50 7688 0.001 12
Wyoming 6 11318 0.001 12
Virginia 78 9117 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of BLACKLEY

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 BLACKLEY 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 BLACKLEY 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 BLACKLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 872 81.95
Black/African American 175 16.45
Mixed Race 11 1.03
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BLACKLEY in historical publications

BLACKLEY. A chapelry in co. Lancaster.

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 BLACKLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BLACKLEY.

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 BLACKLEY

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