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The PAYE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 720 30582 0 3
United States (1880 census) 222 17813 0 4
Change since 1880 +498 -12769 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 16 61881 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PAYE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 94 17385 0.000 5
Michigan 74 14872 0.001 7
California 54 35486 0.000 2
Wisconsin 47 16704 0.001 9
Maryland 42 11531 0.001 8
Top States for PAYE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 32 4285 0.003 31
Vermont 18 4509 0.003 30
South Dakota 22 5337 0.003 29
New Hampshire 14 9522 0.001 11
Wisconsin 47 16704 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of PAYE

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PAYE surname.

Ethnic distribution of PAYE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 511 70.97
Black/African American 150 20.83
Mixed Race 26 3.61
Asian/Pacific 21 2.92
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

PAYE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PAYE in historical publications

PAY. PAYE. See Payson, below.

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 PAYE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAYE.

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 PAYE

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