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The GRIMSLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,678 5603 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 869 6126 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +4809 +523 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 49 25763 0 3
United Kingdom 436 9791 0.001 10
Top States for GRIMSLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 706 2968 0.004 44
Georgia 562 1884 0.007 69
North Carolina 399 2763 0.005 50
Texas 389 5341 0.002 19
Virginia 387 2384 0.005 55
Top States for GRIMSLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 329 1974 0.008 82
Georgia 562 1884 0.007 69
Alabama 284 2351 0.006 64
Virginia 387 2384 0.005 55
North Carolina 399 2763 0.005 50

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

Classification and Origin of GRIMSLEY

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 GRIMSLEY 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 GRIMSLEY 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 GRIMSLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 990 17.44
White (Hispanic) 67 1.18
Mixed Race 52 0.92
Native American/Alaskan 26 0.46
Asian/Pacific 12 0.21
White (Caucasian) 4,531 79.8

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

Meaning of GRIMSLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRIMSLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRIMSLEY.

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 GRIMSLEY

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