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The EMERY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 25,338 1275 0.009 94
United States (1880 census) 9,214 651 0.018 184
Change since 1880 +16124 -624 -0.009 -90
Other Countries
Australia 1,921 853 0.012 118
United Kingdom 8,593 711 0.019 187
Top States for EMERY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,002 1641 0.006 59
Pennsylvania 1,644 794 0.013 134
Michigan 1,462 700 0.015 147
Florida 1,450 1428 0.009 91
Maine 1,339 120 0.105 1,050
Top States for EMERY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 1,339 120 0.105 1,050
New Hampshire 421 414 0.034 341
Vermont 189 495 0.031 310
Idaho 203 822 0.016 157
Utah 340 888 0.015 152

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

Classification and Origin of EMERY

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 EMERY 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 EMERY 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 EMERY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 395 1.56
Mixed Race 360 1.42
Native American/Alaskan 238 0.94
Asian/Pacific 132 0.52
White (Caucasian) 22,847 90.17
Black/African American 1,363 5.38

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

Meaning of EMERY in historical publications

EMERY. Tlie ancient personal name Almericus. See Amory.

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 EMERY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EMERY.

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 EMERY

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