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The CORLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,609 1872 0.007 65
United States (1880 census) 2,708 2247 0.005 54
Change since 1880 +14901 +375 +0.002 +11
Other Countries
Australia 138 10664 0.001 8
United Kingdom 798 6279 0.002 17
Top States for CORLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,194 1189 0.011 105
South Carolina 1,785 333 0.044 445
Georgia 1,382 795 0.017 169
Florida 1,087 1944 0.007 68
Louisiana 983 676 0.022 220
Top States for CORLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,785 333 0.044 445
Louisiana 983 676 0.022 220
Mississippi 624 730 0.022 219
Alabama 914 847 0.021 206
West Virginia 311 914 0.017 172

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

Classification and Origin of CORLEY

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 CORLEY 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 CORLEY 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 CORLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 289 1.64
Mixed Race 236 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 120 0.68
Asian/Pacific 56 0.32
White (Caucasian) 13,501 76.67
Black/African American 3,407 19.35

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

Meaning of CORLEY in historical publications

CORLEY. A parish in co. "Warwick.

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 CORLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CORLEY.

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 CORLEY

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