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The HORSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,484 17505 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 683 7520 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +801 -9985 0 -8
Other Countries
Australia 216 7018 0.001 13
United Kingdom 455 9462 0.001 10
Top States for HORSEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 357 1772 0.007 67
Delaware 266 472 0.034 339
Pennsylvania 179 8653 0.001 15
New Jersey 90 11273 0.001 11
Florida 56 28798 0.000 4
Top States for HORSEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 266 472 0.034 339
Maryland 357 1772 0.007 67
Pennsylvania 179 8653 0.001 15
New Jersey 90 11273 0.001 11
Washington DC 5 11867 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 HORSEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HORSEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HORSEY in Maryland than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HORSEY by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HORSEY

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 HORSEY 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 HORSEY 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 HORSEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 858 57.82
White (Caucasian) 573 38.61
Mixed Race 29 1.95
White (Hispanic) 17 1.15
Asian/Pacific 7 0.47
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of HORSEY in historical publications

HORSEY. A parish in Norfolk, and places in Sussex and Essex.

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 HORSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HORSEY.

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 HORSEY

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