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The ELLERY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 786 28548 0 3
United States (1880 census) 259 15934 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +527 -12614 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 635 2538 0.004 39
United Kingdom 777 6405 0.002 17
Top States for ELLERY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 104 4461 0.003 26
Michigan 101 13033 0.001 10
California 92 25615 0.000 3
Florida 45 35192 0.000 3
Texas 36 34199 0.000 2
Top States for ELLERY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 104 4461 0.003 26
Maine 28 5939 0.002 22
Rhode Island 11 13035 0.001 10
Utah 23 9241 0.001 10
Michigan 101 13033 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of ELLERY

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 ELLERY 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 ELLERY 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 ELLERY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 591 75.19
Black/African American 171 21.76
Mixed Race 12 1.53
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.89
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of ELLERY in historical publications

ELLERY. A corruption of Hilary.

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 ELLERY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELLERY.

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 ELLERY

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