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The KEELEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,166 6117 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 1,676 3485 0.003 34
Change since 1880 +3490 -2632 -0.001 -15
Other Countries
Australia 479 3344 0.003 29
United Kingdom 2,615 2361 0.006 57
Top States for KEELEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 484 3184 0.004 39
California 409 6769 0.001 12
New York 361 5426 0.002 19
Illinois 344 3778 0.003 28
Michigan 335 3589 0.003 34
Top States for KEELEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 54 2319 0.006 60
Maine 66 3066 0.005 52
Massachusetts 321 2755 0.005 51
Delaware 33 4233 0.004 42
Pennsylvania 484 3184 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 KEELEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KEELEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KEELEY in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KEELEY by picking someone at random in Montana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KEELEY

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 KEELEY 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 KEELEY 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 KEELEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 228 4.41
Mixed Race 47 0.91
White (Hispanic) 43 0.83
Asian/Pacific 21 0.41
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.29
White (Caucasian) 4,812 93.15

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

Meaning of KEELEY in historical publications

KEELEY. Probably Keighley, co. KEELEY. See O'Keeley.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to KEELEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KEELEY.

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 KEELEY

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