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The DELAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,322 9048 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 770 6794 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +2552 -2254 -0.001 -3
Other Countries
Australia 15 64327 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for DELAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 303 9146 0.001 9
Texas 251 7762 0.001 12
Georgia 226 3954 0.003 28
Washington 176 4401 0.003 30
Oklahoma 166 2967 0.005 48
Top States for DELAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 52 2364 0.007 69
Oklahoma 166 2967 0.005 48
Oregon 133 3420 0.004 39
Kansas 104 3334 0.004 39
Washington 176 4401 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of DELAY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the DELAY surname.

Ethnic distribution of DELAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 236 7.1
White (Hispanic) 66 1.99
Native American/Alaskan 45 1.35
Mixed Race 43 1.29
Asian/Pacific 17 0.51
White (Caucasian) 2,915 87.75

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

DELAY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of DELAY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of DELAY.

Similar names to DELAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DELAY.

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 DELAY

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