The GRADY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	25,121	1290	0.009	93
United States (1880 census)	8,325	720	0.017	167
Change since 1880	+16796	-570	-0.008	-74
Other Countries
Australia	847	1934	0.005	52
United Kingdom	2,524	2424	0.005	55

Top States for GRADY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,022	566	0.025	251
Massachusetts	1,637	493	0.026	258
California	1,595	2009	0.005	47
Florida	1,363	1500	0.009	85
New York	1,325	1372	0.007	70
Top States for GRADY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,637	493	0.026	258
North Carolina	2,022	566	0.025	251
New Hampshire	251	754	0.020	203
Mississippi	558	798	0.020	196
Maine	218	1149	0.017	171

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

Classification and Origin of GRADY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	372	1.48
White (Hispanic)	352	1.4
Native American/Alaskan	131	0.52
Asian/Pacific	93	0.37
White (Caucasian)	18,519	73.72
Black/African American	5,657	22.52

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

Similar names to GRADY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRADY.

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.