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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

'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.

Meaning of EARLY in historical publications

EARLY. A liberty in the parish of Sonning, co. Berks.

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for EARLY

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