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The NEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,391 8875 0.001 13
United States (1880 census) 915 5881 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +2476 -2994 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 162 9128 0.001 10
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for NEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 707 2270 0.006 58
California 231 11691 0.001 7
Wisconsin 187 4495 0.003 35
Ohio 168 8429 0.001 15
Florida 155 12301 0.001 10
Top States for NEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 707 2270 0.006 58
Wisconsin 187 4495 0.003 35
Iowa 102 4505 0.003 35
Kansas 92 3888 0.003 34
Maine 42 4476 0.003 33

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

Classification and Origin of NEY

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 NEY 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 NEY 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 NEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 78 2.3
White (Hispanic) 45 1.33
Mixed Race 39 1.15
Black/African American 25 0.74
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.21
White (Caucasian) 3,197 94.28

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

Meaning of NEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to NEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEY.

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 NEY

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