The CARLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,941	6345	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	1,636	3551	0.003	33
Change since 1880	+3305	-2794	-0.001	-15
Other Countries
Australia	156	9509	0.001	10
United Kingdom	857	5947	0.002	19

Top States for CARLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	413	4847	0.002	22
Florida	388	5307	0.002	24
Michigan	373	3301	0.004	38
California	328	8487	0.001	10
Texas	309	6497	0.001	15
Top States for CARLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	73	2316	0.007	70
New Hampshire	61	3048	0.005	49
Wisconsin	251	3051	0.005	47
Idaho	54	3530	0.004	42
Connecticut	132	3565	0.004	39

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

Classification and Origin of CARLEY

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 CARLEY 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 CARLEY 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 CARLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	246	4.98
White (Hispanic)	146	2.95
Native American/Alaskan	66	1.34
Mixed Race	41	0.83
Asian/Pacific	30	0.61
White (Caucasian)	4,412	89.29

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

Similar names to CARLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARLEY.

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.