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The HARLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,409 2886 0.004 42
United States (1880 census) 3,139 1944 0.006 63
Change since 1880 +8270 -942 -0.002 -21
Other Countries
Australia 1,052 1568 0.006 64
United Kingdom 5,363 1165 0.012 117
Top States for HARLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,300 523 0.032 324
Maryland 933 653 0.018 176
Florida 876 2541 0.005 55
Pennsylvania 852 1874 0.007 69
California 667 4653 0.002 20
Top States for HARLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,300 523 0.032 324
Maryland 933 653 0.018 176
Washington DC 100 683 0.017 175
Kentucky 333 1826 0.008 82
Pennsylvania 852 1874 0.007 69

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

Classification and Origin of HARLEY

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 HARLEY 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 HARLEY 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 HARLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 293 2.57
Native American/Alaskan 259 2.27
White (Hispanic) 170 1.49
Asian/Pacific 44 0.39
White (Caucasian) 6,369 55.82
Black/African American 4,274 37.46

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

Meaning of HARLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to HARLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARLEY.

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 HARLEY

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