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The PHILYAW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,382 18447 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 62 43976 0 1
Change since 1880 +1320 +25529 +N/A +4
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PHILYAW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 315 3506 0.004 39
Alabama 117 4587 0.003 26
Georgia 102 7261 0.001 12
Florida 91 19995 0.001 6
Louisiana 80 6779 0.002 18
Top States for PHILYAW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 315 3506 0.004 39
Alabama 117 4587 0.003 26
South Carolina 76 5980 0.002 19
Louisiana 80 6779 0.002 18
Arkansas 40 7149 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of PHILYAW

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

Ethnic distribution of PHILYAW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 261 18.89
Mixed Race 30 2.17
White (Hispanic) 14 1.01
White (Caucasian) 1,066 77.13
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 PHILYAW surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of PHILYAW in historical publications

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

Similar names to PHILYAW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PHILYAW.

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 PHILYAW

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