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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

'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.

Meaning of JOLLY in historical publications

JOLLY. JOLLIE. The same as

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for JOLLY

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