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The GREELY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,131 21526 0 4
United States (1880 census) 1,042 5271 0.002 21
Change since 1880 +89 -16255 +N/A -17
Other Countries
Australia 23 46256 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GREELY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 132 4411 0.003 30
California 117 21526 0.000 3
Wisconsin 117 7939 0.002 22
Ohio 78 17651 0.001 7
Pennsylvania 68 22509 0.001 6
Top States for GREELY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 132 4411 0.003 30
Maine 28 6144 0.002 22
Wisconsin 117 7939 0.002 22
Montana 13 12262 0.001 14
Delaware 8 17626 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of GREELY

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

Ethnic distribution of GREELY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 781 69.05
Black/African American 306 27.06
Mixed Race 24 2.12
White (Hispanic) 10 0.88
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GREELY in historical publications

GREELY. Local : probably in co. Rutland, as De Greley aud De Greyley are found there in H.E. temp. Edw. I.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GREELY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREELY.

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 GREELY

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