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The GOURLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,867 5456 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 1,205 4665 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +4662 -791 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 381 4160 0.002 23
United Kingdom 1,373 4043 0.003 30
Top States for GOURLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 559 2712 0.005 46
Tennessee 437 1930 0.008 77
Texas 390 5246 0.002 19
California 333 8047 0.001 10
Florida 280 6942 0.002 18
Top States for GOURLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 437 1930 0.008 77
Utah 158 1877 0.007 71
Iowa 148 2682 0.005 51
Delaware 39 3466 0.005 50
Idaho 61 3016 0.005 47

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

Classification and Origin of GOURLEY

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 GOURLEY 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 GOURLEY 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 GOURLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 79 1.35
White (Hispanic) 75 1.28
Black/African American 32 0.55
Asian/Pacific 21 0.36
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.14
White (Caucasian) 5,652 96.34

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

Meaning of GOURLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to GOURLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOURLEY.

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 GOURLEY

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