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The PUSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,060 13530 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 737 7064 0.001 15
Change since 1880 +1323 -6466 0 -7
Other Countries
Australia 140 10517 0.001 9
United Kingdom 1,011 5230 0.002 22
Top States for PUSEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 347 1766 0.007 66
Delaware 240 512 0.031 306
Pennsylvania 196 7739 0.002 16
New York 176 10879 0.001 9
Florida 160 11369 0.001 10
Top States for PUSEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 240 512 0.031 306
Maryland 347 1766 0.007 66
Washington DC 13 4455 0.002 23
Utah 47 5183 0.002 21
Idaho 23 7855 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of PUSEY

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 PUSEY 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 PUSEY 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 PUSEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 414 20.1
Mixed Race 40 1.94
White (Hispanic) 36 1.75
White (Caucasian) 1,554 75.44
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PUSEY in historical publications

PUSEY. Pusey, or Pewsey, a parish in Wiltshire, which belonged to the family in very early times. Camden thus mentions the antiquity of the race : —

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 PUSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PUSEY.

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 PUSEY

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