The GOLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,052	22770	0	4
United States (1880 census)	136	25405	0	3
Change since 1880	+916	+2635	+N/A	+1
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for GOLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	131	4697	0.003	32
Ohio	90	19671	0.001	8
Indiana	87	11232	0.001	14
New Jersey	78	17568	0.001	9
Illinois	74	25033	0.001	6
Top States for GOLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	131	4697	0.003	32
New Hampshire	23	9313	0.002	19
Indiana	87	11232	0.001	14
South Carolina	51	9466	0.001	13
Tennessee	57	10748	0.001	10

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GOLEY

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

Ethnic distribution of GOLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	924	87.83
Black/African American	69	6.56
White (Hispanic)	28	2.66
Mixed Race	13	1.24
Native American/Alaskan	11	1.05
Asian/Pacific	7	0.67

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

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

Similar names to GOLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOLEY.

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.