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The ELSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,677 15921 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 606 8273 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1071 -7648 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 115 12578 0.001 7
United Kingdom 1,490 3779 0.003 32
Top States for ELSEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 205 6315 0.002 21
California 128 19510 0.000 4
South Carolina 122 4243 0.003 30
Texas 119 14108 0.001 6
Maryland 92 6608 0.002 17
Top States for ELSEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 122 4243 0.003 30
Michigan 205 6315 0.002 21
Oklahoma 64 6753 0.002 19
Maryland 92 6608 0.002 17
West Virginia 28 5831 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of ELSEY

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 ELSEY 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 ELSEY 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 ELSEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 143 8.53
White (Hispanic) 41 2.44
Mixed Race 30 1.79
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.95
Asian/Pacific 10 0.6
White (Caucasian) 1,437 85.69

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

Meaning of ELSEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to ELSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELSEY.

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 ELSEY

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