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The COLYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,012 9885 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 1,055 5215 0.002 21
Change since 1880 +1957 -4670 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 282 5507 0.002 17
United Kingdom 927 5594 0.002 20
Top States for COLYER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 368 4322 0.003 30
Ohio 293 4971 0.003 26
Kentucky 273 2109 0.007 68
Florida 208 9358 0.001 13
Tennessee 171 4256 0.003 30
Top States for COLYER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 273 2109 0.007 68
Tennessee 171 4256 0.003 30
Pennsylvania 368 4322 0.003 30
Ohio 293 4971 0.003 26
Missouri 114 6583 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of COLYER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 168 5.58
White (Hispanic) 36 1.2
Mixed Race 27 0.9
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.27
Asian/Pacific 7 0.23
White (Caucasian) 2,766 91.83

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

Meaning of COLYER in historical publications

COLYER. See Collier.

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 COLYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLYER.

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 COLYER

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