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The BOYLES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,869 3059 0.004 40
United States (1880 census) 2,490 2436 0.005 50
Change since 1880 +8379 -623 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 110 13162 0.001 7
United Kingdom 956 5453 0.002 21
Top States for BOYLES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,005 1244 0.012 125
Pennsylvania 671 2296 0.005 55
Texas 634 3627 0.003 30
Florida 584 3586 0.004 37
California 556 5207 0.002 16
Top States for BOYLES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 373 750 0.021 206
North Carolina 1,005 1244 0.012 125
Mississippi 338 1293 0.012 119
Oklahoma 386 1255 0.011 112
Delaware 83 1750 0.011 106

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

Classification and Origin of BOYLES

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 BOYLES 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 BOYLES 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 BOYLES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 599 5.51
Mixed Race 148 1.36
White (Hispanic) 133 1.22
Native American/Alaskan 87 0.8
Asian/Pacific 63 0.58
White (Caucasian) 9,839 90.52

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

Meaning of BOYLES in historical publications

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

Similar names to BOYLES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOYLES.

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 BOYLES

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