The ATHEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,073	9700	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	731	7115	0.001	15
Change since 1880	+2342	-2585	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	32	36311	0	2
United Kingdom	567	8126	0.001	12

Top States for ATHEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	264	3294	0.004	37
Texas	260	7357	0.001	12
Ohio	240	5867	0.002	21
California	215	11947	0.001	6
Maryland	214	2873	0.004	40
Top States for ATHEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	154	1692	0.009	85
South Dakota	35	3628	0.005	46
Maryland	214	2873	0.004	40
Virginia	264	3294	0.004	37
Nebraska	47	5685	0.003	27

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of ATHEY

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 ATHEY 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 ATHEY 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 ATHEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	81	2.64
Mixed Race	36	1.17
White (Hispanic)	33	1.07
Native American/Alaskan	15	0.49
Asian/Pacific	8	0.26
White (Caucasian)	2,900	94.37

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

Similar names to ATHEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ATHEY.

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.