The COLLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,707	3742	0.003	32
United States (1880 census)	1,748	3365	0.003	35
Change since 1880	+6959	-377	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	1,031	1606	0.006	63
United Kingdom	5,549	1127	0.012	121

Top States for COLLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	849	2820	0.004	41
Alabama	745	1036	0.017	168
Ohio	668	2161	0.006	59
Florida	600	3561	0.004	38
Virginia	589	1654	0.008	83
Top States for COLLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	745	1036	0.017	168
Virginia	589	1654	0.008	83
Kentucky	290	2006	0.007	72
Ohio	668	2161	0.006	59
Georgia	441	2322	0.005	54

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

Classification and Origin of COLLEY

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 COLLEY 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 COLLEY 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 COLLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	942	10.82
White (Hispanic)	143	1.64
Mixed Race	136	1.56
Native American/Alaskan	71	0.82
Asian/Pacific	34	0.39
White (Caucasian)	7,381	84.77

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

Similar names to COLLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLLEY.

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.