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The BUCKLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 40,706 772 0.015 151
United States (1880 census) 13,822 421 0.028 276
Change since 1880 +26884 -351 -0.013 -125
Other Countries
Australia 5,238 263 0.032 320
United Kingdom 20,730 266 0.045 451
Top States for BUCKLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 3,672 163 0.058 578
New York 3,592 419 0.019 189
California 3,400 931 0.010 100
Florida 2,459 793 0.015 154
Illinois 1,968 576 0.016 158
Top States for BUCKLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 3,672 163 0.058 578
Mississippi 1,400 287 0.049 492
New Hampshire 520 299 0.042 421
Delaware 235 516 0.030 300
Maine 356 706 0.028 279

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

Classification and Origin of BUCKLEY

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 BUCKLEY 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 BUCKLEY 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 BUCKLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 696 1.71
Mixed Race 509 1.25
Native American/Alaskan 261 0.64
Asian/Pacific 187 0.46
White (Caucasian) 34,686 85.21
Black/African American 4,364 10.72

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

Meaning of BUCKLEY in historical publications

BUCKLEY. A township in Cheshire.

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 BUCKLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BUCKLEY.

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 BUCKLEY

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