The JOLLY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,166	2198	0.006	56
United States (1880 census)	3,399	1800	0.007	68
Change since 1880	+11767	-398	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	1,900	865	0.012	116
United Kingdom	4,636	1354	0.01	101

Top States for JOLLY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,410	1745	0.007	68
North Carolina	1,263	944	0.016	157
Florida	969	2130	0.006	61
California	917	3342	0.003	27
South Carolina	699	934	0.017	174
Top States for JOLLY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	699	934	0.017	174
Mississippi	487	924	0.017	171
Kentucky	647	915	0.016	160
North Carolina	1,263	944	0.016	157
Alabama	601	1227	0.014	135

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of JOLLY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	268	1.77
White (Hispanic)	191	1.26
Mixed Race	176	1.16
Native American/Alaskan	93	0.61
White (Caucasian)	11,829	78
Black/African American	2,609	17.2

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

Similar names to JOLLY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JOLLY.

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.