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The GORMLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,960 6325 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 1,428 3999 0.003 29
Change since 1880 +3532 -2326 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 243 6319 0.001 15
United Kingdom 2,896 2138 0.006 63
Top States for GORMLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 643 2310 0.005 52
New York 449 4227 0.002 24
New Jersey 409 2245 0.005 49
Massachusetts 391 2235 0.006 62
California 337 7877 0.001 10
Top States for GORMLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 106 1463 0.010 101
Massachusetts 391 2235 0.006 62
Pennsylvania 643 2310 0.005 52
New Jersey 409 2245 0.005 49
Maine 57 3358 0.004 45

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

Classification and Origin of GORMLEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 66 1.33
Mixed Race 52 1.05
Asian/Pacific 35 0.71
Black/African American 31 0.63
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.24
White (Caucasian) 4,764 96.05

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

Meaning of GORMLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to GORMLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GORMLEY.

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 GORMLEY

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