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The GOOLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 515 40083 0 2
United States (1880 census) 276 15199 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +239 -24884 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 471 3397 0.003 29
United Kingdom 43 26545 0 1
Top States for GOOLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 96 11734 0.001 5
Minnesota 32 14338 0.001 7
Indiana 29 13396 0.000 5
New Jersey 27 21513 0.000 3
Illinois 25 30143 0.000 2
Top States for GOOLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 10 5409 0.002 16
Maine 11 7787 0.001 9
Oregon 23 10765 0.001 7
Minnesota 32 14338 0.001 7
Connecticut 22 12431 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of GOOLEY

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

Ethnic distribution of GOOLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 451 87.57
Black/African American 50 9.71
Mixed Race 8 1.55
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GOOLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to GOOLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOOLEY.

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 GOOLEY

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