The GORMLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,960	6325	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	1,428	3999	0.003	29
Change since 1880	+3532	-2326	-0.001	-11
Other Countries
Australia	243	6319	0.001	15
United Kingdom	2,896	2138	0.006	63

Top States for GORMLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	643	2310	0.005	52
New York	449	4227	0.002	24
New Jersey	409	2245	0.005	49
Massachusetts	391	2235	0.006	62
California	337	7877	0.001	10
Top States for GORMLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	106	1463	0.010	101
Massachusetts	391	2235	0.006	62
Pennsylvania	643	2310	0.005	52
New Jersey	409	2245	0.005	49
Maine	57	3358	0.004	45

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

Classification and Origin of GORMLEY

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 GORMLEY 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 GORMLEY 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 GORMLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	66	1.33
Mixed Race	52	1.05
Asian/Pacific	35	0.71
Black/African American	31	0.63
Native American/Alaskan	12	0.24
White (Caucasian)	4,764	96.05

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

Similar names to GORMLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GORMLEY.

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.