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The ALES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 839 27128 0 3
United States (1880 census) 133 25829 0 3
Change since 1880 +706 -1299 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 13 71322 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ALES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 107 22725 0.000 3
Michigan 84 15809 0.001 8
Florida 80 21657 0.001 5
Illinois 58 23805 0.000 5
Minnesota 52 15938 0.001 11
Top States for ALES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 49 5434 0.002 17
Iowa 32 14322 0.001 11
Minnesota 52 15938 0.001 11
Michigan 84 15809 0.001 8
Wyoming 4 16591 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of ALES

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

Ethnic distribution of ALES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 719 85.7
White (Hispanic) 54 6.44
Black/African American 44 5.24
Mixed Race 13 1.55
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 ALES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of ALES in historical publications

CLINKSC ALES. As skell signifies a well, (see Skell) the second syllable may be a corruption of it, and thus the name would be local. A capital surname for a shopkeeper.

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 ALES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALES.

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 ALES

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