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The GRIMLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 834 27258 0 3
United States (1880 census) 267 15620 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +567 -11638 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 256 6028 0.002 16
United Kingdom 1,332 4141 0.003 29
Top States for GRIMLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 93 8332 0.001 15
Pennsylvania 81 17230 0.001 7
New Jersey 76 12424 0.001 9
Minnesota 63 12002 0.001 13
California 61 34699 0.000 2
Top States for GRIMLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 26 5813 0.002 25
Vermont 9 8798 0.001 15
Massachusetts 93 8332 0.001 15
Minnesota 63 12002 0.001 13
Utah 21 9287 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of GRIMLEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 790 94.72
White (Hispanic) 21 2.52
Black/African American 8 0.96
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.72
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GRIMLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRIMLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRIMLEY.

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 GRIMLEY

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