The FOLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	50,852	605	0.019	188
United States (1880 census)	17,353	315	0.035	347
Change since 1880	+33499	-290	-0.016	-159
Other Countries
Australia	3,591	412	0.022	220
United Kingdom	8,624	707	0.019	188

Top States for FOLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	6,137	60	0.097	967
New York	3,790	393	0.020	200
California	3,781	808	0.011	112
Florida	3,047	607	0.019	191
Pennsylvania	2,589	425	0.021	211
Top States for FOLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	6,137	60	0.097	967
New Hampshire	676	197	0.055	547
Maine	660	320	0.052	518
Vermont	309	218	0.051	508
Connecticut	1,268	204	0.037	372

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of FOLEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	671	1.32
Mixed Race	519	1.02
Asian/Pacific	275	0.54
Native American/Alaskan	132	0.26
White (Caucasian)	47,597	93.6
Black/African American	1,663	3.27

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

Similar names to FOLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOLEY.

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.