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The HUNTLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,175 2715 0.005 45
United States (1880 census) 2,778 2192 0.006 56
Change since 1880 +9397 -523 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 511 3149 0.003 31
United Kingdom 2,928 2114 0.006 64
Top States for HUNTLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,447 854 0.018 180
California 846 3712 0.002 25
Florida 725 2963 0.005 45
Michigan 591 2003 0.006 59
New York 531 3821 0.003 28
Top States for HUNTLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 296 908 0.023 232
North Carolina 1,447 854 0.018 180
Vermont 98 1156 0.016 161
New Hampshire 141 1464 0.011 114
Oregon 362 1196 0.011 106

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

Classification and Origin of HUNTLEY

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 HUNTLEY 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 HUNTLEY 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 HUNTLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 217 1.78
White (Hispanic) 136 1.12
Asian/Pacific 58 0.48
Native American/Alaskan 46 0.38
White (Caucasian) 8,548 70.21
Black/African American 3,169 26.03

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

Meaning of HUNTLEY in historical publications

(origin: Local) A town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland; the hunting field.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


HUNTLEY. A parish in co. Gloucester.

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 HUNTLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HUNTLEY.

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 HUNTLEY

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