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The ELY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,884 2583 0.005 48
United States (1880 census) 6,392 950 0.013 128
Change since 1880 +6492 -1633 -0.008 -80
Other Countries
Australia 357 4438 0.002 22
United Kingdom 1,647 3466 0.004 36
Top States for ELY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 962 3197 0.003 28
Ohio 917 1465 0.008 81
Florida 818 2505 0.005 51
Texas 790 2916 0.004 38
Pennsylvania 787 1872 0.006 64
Top States for ELY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 85 1275 0.014 140
Alaska 53 1512 0.008 85
Ohio 917 1465 0.008 81
Idaho 98 1833 0.008 76
Connecticut 244 1780 0.007 72

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

Classification and Origin of ELY

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 ELY 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 ELY 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 ELY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 798 6.19
White (Hispanic) 187 1.45
Mixed Race 175 1.36
Native American/Alaskan 84 0.65
Asian/Pacific 61 0.47
White (Caucasian) 11,579 89.87

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

Meaning of ELY in historical publications

(origin: Local) From Ely, a city in Cambridgeshire, England, and signifies the place of willows, from Helig, Cor. Br. and Welsh; Latin, Salix. Greek ??, Ealig, an island; land in waterland. Greek, "E??, a marsh.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


ELY. A city in Cambridgeshire.

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 ELY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELY.

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 ELY

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