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The ELEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,675 6664 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 1,242 4543 0.002 25
Change since 1880 +3433 -2121 0 -8
Other Countries
Australia 241 6370 0.001 15
United Kingdom 2,770 2254 0.006 60
Top States for ELEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 902 1108 0.013 127
Ohio 376 4048 0.003 33
North Carolina 328 3408 0.004 41
Maryland 200 3264 0.004 38
Georgia 196 4550 0.002 24
Top States for ELEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 902 1108 0.013 127
Delaware 44 3366 0.006 56
Washington DC 28 2332 0.005 49
Mississippi 129 2890 0.005 45
North Carolina 328 3408 0.004 41

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

Classification and Origin of ELEY

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 ELEY 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 ELEY 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 ELEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 80 1.71
White (Hispanic) 40 0.86
Native American/Alaskan 32 0.68
Asian/Pacific 21 0.45
Black/African American 2,141 45.8
White (Caucasian) 2,361 50.5

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

Meaning of ELEY in historical publications

ELEY. See Ely.

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 ELEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELEY.

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 ELEY

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