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The RILLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 279 66274 0 1
United States (1880 census) 659 7731 0.001 13
Change since 1880 -380 -58543 +N/A -12
Other Countries
Australia 19 54543 0 1
United Kingdom 47 26303 0 1
Top States for RILLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 37 38285 0.000 4
New York 28 72394 0.000 1
California 21 110543 0.000 1
Texas 17 68913 0.000 1
Wisconsin 15 53895 0.000 3
Top States for RILLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 11 15473 0.001 12
Michigan 37 38285 0.000 4
Connecticut 11 49354 0.000 3
Wisconsin 15 53895 0.000 3
Maryland 14 40871 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of RILLEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 184 65.95
Black/African American 84 30.11
Mixed Race 5 1.79
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
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 RILLEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of RILLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to RILLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RILLEY.

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 RILLEY

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