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The EYE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,761 15317 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 297 14396 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1464 -921 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 4 33660 0 0
Top States for EYE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 291 3101 0.005 52
West Virginia 278 1169 0.015 154
Virginia 205 4710 0.003 29
Ohio 91 16912 0.001 8
California 81 32530 0.000 2
Top States for EYE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 278 1169 0.015 154
Missouri 291 3101 0.005 52
Virginia 205 4710 0.003 29
Delaware 18 8721 0.002 23
Kansas 43 8986 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of EYE

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Denmark

Language of origin: Danish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the EYE 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 EYE 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 EYE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 34 1.93
White (Hispanic) 32 1.82
Mixed Race 15 0.85
Asian/Pacific 13 0.74
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.4
White (Caucasian) 1,660 94.26

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

Meaning of EYE in historical publications

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

Similar names to EYE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EYE.

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 EYE

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