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The DRAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,752 15375 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 446 10596 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1306 -4779 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 254 6065 0.002 16
United Kingdom 947 5497 0.002 21
Top States for DRAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 389 3828 0.003 34
Florida 143 13165 0.001 9
New York 114 17493 0.001 6
Illinois 94 14975 0.001 8
California 85 27921 0.000 3
Top States for DRAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 389 3828 0.003 34
Wisconsin 80 11646 0.001 15
Massachusetts 79 10489 0.001 12
Connecticut 42 11698 0.001 12
Arizona 54 10696 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of DRAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DRAY 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 DRAY 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 DRAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 93 5.31
White (Hispanic) 34 1.94
Mixed Race 15 0.86
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.57
Asian/Pacific 5 0.29
White (Caucasian) 1,595 91.04

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

Meaning of DRAY in historical publications

DRAY. A diminutive of Drogo. Dreyg. H.R.

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 DRAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DRAY.

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 DRAY

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