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The SKELLY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,997 7680 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 1,389 4101 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +2608 -3579 -0.002 -13
Other Countries
Australia 389 4072 0.002 24
United Kingdom 1,448 3880 0.003 32
Top States for SKELLY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 535 3409 0.003 28
Florida 319 5852 0.002 20
Pennsylvania 314 4573 0.003 26
California 297 8533 0.001 9
Ohio 259 5092 0.002 23
Top States for SKELLY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 36 3630 0.005 46
Minnesota 209 2970 0.004 42
Connecticut 132 3257 0.004 39
Rhode Island 36 4167 0.003 34
New York 535 3409 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of SKELLY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 52 1.3
Mixed Race 48 1.2
Black/African American 38 0.95
Asian/Pacific 29 0.73
Native American/Alaskan 27 0.68
White (Caucasian) 3,803 95.15

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

Meaning of SKELLY in historical publications

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

Similar names to SKELLY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SKELLY.

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 SKELLY

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