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The EMBRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,379 3894 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 1,396 4080 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +6983 +186 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 47 26720 0 3
United Kingdom 54 25895 0 1
Top States for EMBRY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 2,299 256 0.057 569
Texas 686 3557 0.003 33
Indiana 610 1295 0.010 100
Alabama 469 1631 0.011 105
California 423 7020 0.001 12
Top States for EMBRY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 2,299 256 0.057 569
Alabama 469 1631 0.011 105
Indiana 610 1295 0.010 100
Oklahoma 208 2493 0.006 60
Mississippi 169 2362 0.006 59

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

Classification and Origin of EMBRY

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 EMBRY 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 EMBRY 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 EMBRY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 116 1.38
Mixed Race 110 1.31
Asian/Pacific 63 0.75
Native American/Alaskan 39 0.47
White (Caucasian) 6,410 76.5
Black/African American 1,641 19.58

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

Meaning of EMBRY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of EMBRY.

Similar names to EMBRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EMBRY.

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 EMBRY

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