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The VAIL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,042 3270 0.004 37
United States (1880 census) 4,390 1420 0.009 88
Change since 1880 +5652 -1850 -0.005 -51
Other Countries
Australia 93 15234 0.001 6
United Kingdom 318 12275 0.001 7
Top States for VAIL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 887 3364 0.003 26
New York 743 2510 0.004 39
Florida 591 3413 0.004 37
Illinois 489 2570 0.004 39
Texas 463 4518 0.002 22
Top States for VAIL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 127 1797 0.010 100
Idaho 122 1421 0.009 94
Arkansas 226 1567 0.008 85
Washington 463 1542 0.008 79
Kansas 185 1673 0.007 69

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

Classification and Origin of VAIL

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 VAIL 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 VAIL 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 VAIL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 487 4.85
White (Hispanic) 255 2.54
Mixed Race 143 1.42
Asian/Pacific 80 0.8
Native American/Alaskan 52 0.52
White (Caucasian) 9,025 89.87

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

Meaning of VAIL in historical publications

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

Similar names to VAIL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as VAIL.

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 VAIL

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