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The FEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,674 8294 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 936 5766 0.002 19
Change since 1880 +2738 -2528 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 51 24866 0 3
United Kingdom 258 14026 0.001 6
Top States for FEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 319 6186 0.002 15
New York 295 6630 0.002 16
Florida 256 7543 0.002 16
Pennsylvania 255 5995 0.002 21
California 235 10987 0.001 7
Top States for FEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 35 3662 0.005 46
Kentucky 182 2795 0.005 45
North Dakota 24 4691 0.004 37
Iowa 104 4128 0.004 36
Nebraska 57 4464 0.003 33

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

Classification and Origin of FEY

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 FEY 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 FEY 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 FEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 74 2.01
Black/African American 52 1.42
Mixed Race 44 1.2
Asian/Pacific 38 1.03
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.16
White (Caucasian) 3,460 94.18

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

Meaning of FEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to FEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FEY.

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 FEY

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