The EARLY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,855	2396	0.005	51
United States (1880 census)	5,009	1220	0.01	100
Change since 1880	+8846	-1176	-0.005	-49
Other Countries
Australia	189	7923	0.001	12
United Kingdom	1,177	4607	0.003	26

Top States for EARLY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	1,032	868	0.015	146
California	921	3340	0.003	27
Texas	854	2704	0.004	41
Ohio	808	1705	0.007	71
North Carolina	765	1596	0.010	95
Top States for EARLY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	1,032	868	0.015	146
Alabama	554	1323	0.012	125
Kentucky	391	1480	0.010	97
North Carolina	765	1596	0.010	95
Louisiana	380	1674	0.009	85

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

Classification and Origin of EARLY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	194	1.4
White (Hispanic)	159	1.15
Native American/Alaskan	104	0.75
Asian/Pacific	53	0.38
White (Caucasian)	10,498	75.77
Black/African American	2,846	20.54

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

Similar names to EARLY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EARLY.

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.