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The PASSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 874 26292 0 3
United States (1880 census) 71 39585 0 1
Change since 1880 +803 +13293 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 88 15908 0.001 5
United Kingdom 969 5397 0.002 21
Top States for PASSEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 290 1116 0.013 130
Idaho 120 1630 0.009 93
Arizona 70 8657 0.001 14
Washington 69 11298 0.001 12
California 68 34912 0.000 2
Top States for PASSEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 290 1116 0.013 130
Idaho 120 1630 0.009 93
Wyoming 13 6349 0.003 26
Arizona 70 8657 0.001 14
Washington 69 11298 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of PASSEY

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 PASSEY 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 PASSEY 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 PASSEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 825 94.39
Asian/Pacific 18 2.06
Mixed Race 17 1.95
White (Hispanic) 8 0.92
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PASSEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to PASSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PASSEY.

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 PASSEY

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