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The MALLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,940 7774 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 907 5930 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +3033 -1844 -0.001 -3
Other Countries
Australia 230 6634 0.001 14
United Kingdom 952 5473 0.002 21
Top States for MALLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 382 6289 0.001 11
New York 336 4948 0.002 18
Pennsylvania 301 4349 0.002 25
Mississippi 299 1233 0.011 105
Massachusetts 287 2650 0.005 45
Top States for MALLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 299 1233 0.011 105
Massachusetts 287 2650 0.005 45
Connecticut 147 2650 0.004 43
Montana 36 3118 0.004 40
Vermont 23 3677 0.004 38

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

Classification and Origin of MALLEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 99 2.51
Mixed Race 61 1.55
White (Hispanic) 36 0.91
Asian/Pacific 24 0.61
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.28
White (Caucasian) 3,709 94.14

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

Meaning of MALLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to MALLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MALLEY.

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 MALLEY

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