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The BLAKENEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,911 7851 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 597 8369 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +3314 +518 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 283 5480 0.002 17
United Kingdom 260 13959 0.001 6
Top States for BLAKENEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 621 761 0.022 218
North Carolina 483 2463 0.006 60
South Carolina 398 1745 0.010 99
Texas 383 5604 0.002 18
Alabama 185 3356 0.004 42
Top States for BLAKENEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 621 761 0.022 218
Washington DC 68 977 0.012 119
South Carolina 398 1745 0.010 99
Vermont 37 2856 0.006 61
North Carolina 483 2463 0.006 60

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

Classification and Origin of BLAKENEY

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 BLAKENEY 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 BLAKENEY 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 BLAKENEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 74 1.89
White (Hispanic) 34 0.87
Asian/Pacific 10 0.26
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.26
White (Caucasian) 2,181 55.77
Black/African American 1,602 40.96

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

Meaning of BLAKENEY in historical publications

BLAKENEY. A parish of Norfolk, in which CO. the family had great possessions. The B.'s of Ireland, settled there temp. Eliz., were a younger line.

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 BLAKENEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BLAKENEY.

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 BLAKENEY

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