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The COPLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,485 4973 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 825 6386 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +5660 +1413 0 +8
Other Countries
Australia 540 2995 0.003 33
United Kingdom 2,847 2181 0.006 62
Top States for COPLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,029 1382 0.009 91
West Virginia 677 398 0.037 374
Florida 402 5248 0.003 25
Kentucky 399 1518 0.010 99
Texas 317 6481 0.002 15
Top States for COPLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 677 398 0.037 374
Kentucky 399 1518 0.010 99
Ohio 1,029 1382 0.009 91
Tennessee 313 2700 0.006 55
Colorado 203 2917 0.005 47

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

Classification and Origin of COPLEY

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 COPLEY 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 COPLEY 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 COPLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 114 1.76
Black/African American 78 1.2
Mixed Race 58 0.89
Asian/Pacific 25 0.39
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.35
White (Caucasian) 6,187 95.4

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

Meaning of COPLEY in historical publications

COPLEY. Yery ancient in Yorkshire. Local — but I do not find the place.

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 COPLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COPLEY.

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 COPLEY

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