The ELEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,675	6664	0.002	17
United States (1880 census)	1,242	4543	0.002	25
Change since 1880	+3433	-2121	0	-8
Other Countries
Australia	241	6370	0.001	15
United Kingdom	2,770	2254	0.006	60

Top States for ELEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	902	1108	0.013	127
Ohio	376	4048	0.003	33
North Carolina	328	3408	0.004	41
Maryland	200	3264	0.004	38
Georgia	196	4550	0.002	24
Top States for ELEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	902	1108	0.013	127
Delaware	44	3366	0.006	56
Washington DC	28	2332	0.005	49
Mississippi	129	2890	0.005	45
North Carolina	328	3408	0.004	41

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

Classification and Origin of ELEY

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 ELEY 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 ELEY 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 ELEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	80	1.71
White (Hispanic)	40	0.86
Native American/Alaskan	32	0.68
Asian/Pacific	21	0.45
Black/African American	2,141	45.8
White (Caucasian)	2,361	50.5

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

Similar names to ELEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELEY.

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.