The BARCLAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,160	2965	0.004	41
United States (1880 census)	3,061	1983	0.006	61
Change since 1880	+8099	-982	-0.002	-20
Other Countries
Australia	1,784	912	0.011	109
United Kingdom	8,060	758	0.018	175

Top States for BARCLAY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	985	2331	0.005	47
California	849	3453	0.003	25
New York	773	2344	0.004	41
Florida	716	2785	0.004	45
Pennsylvania	675	2164	0.005	55
Top States for BARCLAY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	78	1359	0.013	128
Idaho	129	1301	0.010	100
Alabama	391	1747	0.009	88
North Dakota	51	1912	0.008	79
Oregon	267	1542	0.008	78

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

Classification and Origin of BARCLAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	221	1.98
Mixed Race	140	1.25
Asian/Pacific	74	0.66
Native American/Alaskan	36	0.32
White (Caucasian)	9,347	83.75
Black/African American	1,343	12.03

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

Meaning of BARCLAY in historical publications

(origin: Sax. Local) A corruption of Berkeley; a town in Gloucestershire, England, derived from the Saxon beorce, a beech-tree, and leagh or ley, a field, and so called because of the plenty of beech-trees growing there.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

BARCLAY. We find a Theobald de Berlceley, probabi}' an offshoot of the English family, settled in Scotland, so early as temp. David I. Fourth in descent from him Avas Alex, de B., who married the heiress of Mathers, and wrote himself De Berkeley of Slathers. His great grandjou Alex, clianged the spelling to Barclay in the XV. century. Geneal. Ace. of Barclays of Ury.

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 BARCLAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BARCLAY.

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.