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The GRILLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 325 58397 0 1
United States (1880 census) 108 29831 0 2
Change since 1880 +217 -28566 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GRILLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 53 16585 0.001 10
Montana 41 3088 0.005 45
Washington 24 27490 0.000 4
Oregon 22 18506 0.001 6
North Dakota 21 5481 0.003 33
Top States for GRILLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 41 3088 0.005 45
North Dakota 21 5481 0.003 33
Wisconsin 53 16585 0.001 10
South Dakota 6 17457 0.001 8
Oregon 22 18506 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 GRILLEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GRILLEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GRILLEY in Wisconsin than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GRILLEY by picking someone at random in Montana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GRILLEY

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

Ethnic distribution of GRILLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 311 95.69
Mixed Race 5 1.54
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American None reported 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 GRILLEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of GRILLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRILLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRILLEY.

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 GRILLEY

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