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The GAILEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,925 7814 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 459 10349 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +3466 +2535 0 +5
Other Countries
Australia 91 15397 0.001 6
United Kingdom 279 13355 0.001 6
Top States for GAILEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 508 2638 0.006 62
Pennsylvania 385 5531 0.003 31
Utah 382 1094 0.017 171
Texas 267 9348 0.001 13
California 257 13500 0.001 8
Top States for GAILEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 382 1094 0.017 171
Idaho 107 2372 0.008 83
Georgia 508 2638 0.006 62
Pennsylvania 385 5531 0.003 31
Alaska 19 7057 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of GAILEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 324 8.25
White (Hispanic) 53 1.35
Mixed Race 47 1.2
Asian/Pacific 18 0.46
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.33
White (Caucasian) 3,470 88.41

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

Meaning of GAILEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to GAILEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAILEY.

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 GAILEY

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