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The GRAYES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 225 78838 0 1
United States (1880 census) 6 97602 0 0
Change since 1880 +219 +18764 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GRAYES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 36 92121 0.000 1
Florida 30 76929 0.000 2
Missouri 22 38470 0.000 4
Arkansas 18 17064 0.001 7
Illinois 18 101132 0.000 1
Top States for GRAYES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 18 17064 0.001 7
Missouri 22 38470 0.000 4
New Mexico 4 47494 0.000 2
Florida 30 76929 0.000 2
Tennessee 10 44852 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of GRAYES

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

Ethnic distribution of GRAYES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 135 60
White (Caucasian) 73 32.44
Mixed Race 9 4
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
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 GRAYES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of GRAYES in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRAYES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRAYES.

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 GRAYES

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