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The FLY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,252 12611 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 856 6200 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +1396 -6411 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 30 38163 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FLY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 441 2133 0.008 78
Texas 307 6931 0.001 15
Mississippi 195 2172 0.007 69
California 121 21316 0.000 4
Virginia 95 8119 0.001 13
Top States for FLY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 441 2133 0.008 78
Mississippi 195 2172 0.007 69
Idaho 28 7058 0.002 22
Oklahoma 61 7340 0.002 18
Texas 307 6931 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of FLY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the FLY surname.

Ethnic distribution of FLY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 285 12.66
White (Hispanic) 50 2.22
Mixed Race 33 1.47
Native American/Alaskan 23 1.02
Asian/Pacific 16 0.71
White (Caucasian) 1,845 81.93

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

FLY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of FLY in historical publications

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

Similar names to FLY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FLY.

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 FLY

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