The CAREY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	54,924	547	0.02	204
United States (1880 census)	12,983	454	0.026	260
Change since 1880	+41941	-93	-0.006	-56
Other Countries
Australia	3,929	376	0.024	240
United Kingdom	10,991	543	0.024	239

Top States for CAREY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	4,483	327	0.024	236
California	4,098	771	0.012	121
Florida	3,439	549	0.022	215
Pennsylvania	3,175	349	0.026	259
Massachusetts	3,127	219	0.049	493
Top States for CAREY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	725	110	0.093	925
Maine	643	336	0.050	504
Massachusetts	3,127	219	0.049	493
Vermont	255	311	0.042	419
New Hampshire	431	400	0.035	349

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

Classification and Origin of CAREY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	840	1.53
White (Hispanic)	785	1.43
Native American/Alaskan	352	0.64
Asian/Pacific	236	0.43
White (Caucasian)	45,702	83.21
Black/African American	7,003	12.75

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

Similar names to CAREY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAREY.

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.