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The SHELEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,578 16694 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 509 9516 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +1069 -7178 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 5 32699 0 0
Top States for SHELEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 211 6629 0.002 17
California 113 22036 0.000 3
Ohio 113 12369 0.001 10
Georgia 105 6990 0.001 13
Colorado 99 5959 0.002 23
Top States for SHELEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Colorado 99 5959 0.002 23
Kansas 56 6352 0.002 21
Illinois 211 6629 0.002 17
Indiana 94 8306 0.002 15
Iowa 42 11591 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of SHELEY

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

Ethnic distribution of SHELEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 66 4.18
Mixed Race 28 1.77
White (Hispanic) 20 1.27
White (Caucasian) 1,448 91.76
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 SHELEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of SHELEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to SHELEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHELEY.

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 SHELEY

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