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The SEELEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,735 3097 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 3,545 1727 0.007 71
Change since 1880 +7190 -1370 -0.003 -31
Other Countries
Australia 324 4854 0.002 20
United Kingdom 1,516 3716 0.003 33
Top States for SEELEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,409 1287 0.007 74
California 774 3870 0.002 23
Michigan 756 1456 0.008 76
Pennsylvania 657 2301 0.005 53
Florida 604 3398 0.004 38
Top States for SEELEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 244 1046 0.019 191
Utah 212 1447 0.009 95
Idaho 103 1762 0.008 80
Michigan 756 1456 0.008 76
New York 1,409 1287 0.007 74

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

Classification and Origin of SEELEY

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 SEELEY 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 SEELEY 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 SEELEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 196 1.83
Mixed Race 167 1.56
White (Hispanic) 143 1.33
Native American/Alaskan 108 1.01
Asian/Pacific 61 0.57
White (Caucasian) 10,060 93.71

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

Meaning of SEELEY in historical publications

SEELEY. SEELY. This word, in the forms of scl and sill, occurs in 0. English writers from Chaucer to Jlilton, in the sense of harmless or simple. Tlie word silhj, the etymology of which has been debated, is niucli perverted from its original meaning, and the word ' simple' is now undergoing a similar degradation. 2. Ferguson derives it from A- Sax. sc'l, prosperous.

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 SEELEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SEELEY.

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 SEELEY

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