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The GRAYS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,232 12705 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 102 31024 0 2
Change since 1880 +2130 +18319 +N/A +6
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 12 30249 0 0
Top States for GRAYS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 345 6794 0.002 17
California 283 11076 0.001 8
Ohio 188 8653 0.002 17
Michigan 167 9163 0.002 17
Illinois 123 13163 0.001 10
Top States for GRAYS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 78 4426 0.003 27
Arkansas 64 5454 0.002 24
Alabama 105 5326 0.002 24
Maryland 103 6795 0.002 19
Washington DC 10 6587 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of GRAYS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 215 9.63
Mixed Race 61 2.73
White (Hispanic) 30 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.4
Asian/Pacific 6 0.27
Black/African American 1,911 85.62

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

Meaning of GRAYS in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRAYS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRAYS.

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 GRAYS

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