The COOLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	32,287	983	0.012	120
United States (1880 census)	8,291	725	0.017	166
Change since 1880	+23996	-258	-0.005	-46
Other Countries
Australia	502	3211	0.003	31
United Kingdom	1,346	4105	0.003	29

Top States for COOLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,050	1631	0.006	61
Mississippi	1,972	192	0.069	693
Texas	1,963	1304	0.009	94
Michigan	1,615	631	0.016	163
Florida	1,595	1325	0.010	100
Top States for COOLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	1,972	192	0.069	693
Alabama	1,276	601	0.029	287
Louisiana	1,263	508	0.028	283
South Carolina	934	707	0.023	233
Wyoming	110	474	0.022	223

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of COOLEY

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 COOLEY 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 COOLEY 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 COOLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	407	1.26
White (Hispanic)	375	1.16
Native American/Alaskan	274	0.85
Asian/Pacific	116	0.36
White (Caucasian)	25,881	80.16
Black/African American	5,237	16.22

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

Similar names to COOLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COOLEY.

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.