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The COLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,879 2243 0.006 55
United States (1880 census) 2,119 2830 0.004 42
Change since 1880 +12760 +587 +0.002 +13
Other Countries
Australia 117 12342 0.001 7
United Kingdom 2,721 2286 0.006 59
Top States for COLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,610 475 0.032 324
Georgia 1,574 741 0.019 192
Florida 1,092 2057 0.007 68
California 794 4094 0.002 23
Alabama 780 1049 0.018 175
Top States for COLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,610 475 0.032 324
Georgia 1,574 741 0.019 192
Alabama 780 1049 0.018 175
Washington DC 73 960 0.013 128
Mississippi 330 1398 0.012 116

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

Classification and Origin of COLEY

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 COLEY 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 COLEY 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 COLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 311 2.09
White (Hispanic) 243 1.63
Native American/Alaskan 134 0.9
Asian/Pacific 73 0.49
White (Caucasian) 8,053 54.12
Black/African American 6,065 40.76

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

Meaning of COLEY in historical publications

COLEY. The same as Cowley, Cooley,

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 COLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLEY.

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 COLEY

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