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The JOLLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,126 3574 0.003 34
United States (1880 census) 1,387 4107 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +7739 +533 0 +6
Other Countries
Australia 876 1871 0.005 54
United Kingdom 2,660 2331 0.006 58
Top States for JOLLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 1,044 222 0.047 467
California 623 4747 0.002 18
Texas 566 4010 0.003 27
South Carolina 559 1220 0.014 139
North Carolina 528 2206 0.007 66
Top States for JOLLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 1,044 222 0.047 467
Idaho 320 504 0.025 247
Wyoming 106 501 0.021 215
South Carolina 559 1220 0.014 139
Tennessee 514 1704 0.009 90

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

Classification and Origin of JOLLEY

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 JOLLEY 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 JOLLEY 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 JOLLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 657 7.2
White (Hispanic) 125 1.37
Mixed Race 103 1.13
Native American/Alaskan 54 0.59
Asian/Pacific 51 0.56
White (Caucasian) 8,136 89.15

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

Meaning of JOLLEY in historical publications

JOLLEY. SeeJolliffe.

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 JOLLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JOLLEY.

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 JOLLEY

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