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The HALEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 36,433 869 0.014 135
United States (1880 census) 15,170 375 0.03 303
Change since 1880 +21263 -494 -0.016 -168
Other Countries
Australia 938 1754 0.006 57
United Kingdom 3,867 1615 0.008 84
Top States for HALEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 3,074 829 0.015 147
California 2,734 1193 0.008 81
Florida 1,822 1128 0.011 114
Massachusetts 1,728 466 0.027 272
Tennessee 1,662 514 0.029 292
Top States for HALEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 529 441 0.041 415
New Hampshire 368 482 0.030 298
Tennessee 1,662 514 0.029 292
Massachusetts 1,728 466 0.027 272
Oklahoma 872 515 0.025 253

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

Classification and Origin of HALEY

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 HALEY 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 HALEY 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 HALEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 514 1.41
Mixed Race 495 1.36
Native American/Alaskan 240 0.66
Asian/Pacific 146 0.4
White (Caucasian) 30,338 83.27
Black/African American 4,700 12.9

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

Meaning of HALEY in historical publications

HALEY. HALT. See Hayley.

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 HALEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HALEY.

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 HALEY

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