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The HALLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,870 6432 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 1,495 3848 0.003 30
Change since 1880 +3375 -2584 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 282 5501 0.002 17
United Kingdom 984 5329 0.002 21
Top States for HALLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 448 3255 0.004 39
California 359 7823 0.001 11
Florida 300 6762 0.002 19
Missouri 292 2663 0.005 52
Illinois 241 5609 0.002 19
Top States for HALLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 292 2663 0.005 52
Wyoming 22 3202 0.004 45
Oklahoma 146 3276 0.004 42
West Virginia 72 3033 0.004 40
Ohio 448 3255 0.004 39

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

Classification and Origin of HALLEY

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 HALLEY 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 HALLEY 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 HALLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 766 15.73
White (Hispanic) 115 2.36
Mixed Race 69 1.42
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.31
Asian/Pacific 11 0.23
White (Caucasian) 3,894 79.96

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

Meaning of HALLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to HALLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HALLEY.

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 HALLEY

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