The KIRTLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,655	10990	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	615	8169	0.001	12
Change since 1880	+2040	-2821	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	55	23719	0	3
United Kingdom	809	6216	0.002	18

Top States for KIRTLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	289	1959	0.007	72
Texas	232	8068	0.001	11
California	192	13228	0.001	6
Ohio	187	7366	0.002	16
Virginia	176	4624	0.002	25
Top States for KIRTLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	289	1959	0.007	72
Arkansas	123	2841	0.005	46
Oklahoma	113	4043	0.003	33
West Virginia	56	3516	0.003	31
Idaho	40	4719	0.003	31

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

Classification and Origin of KIRTLEY

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 KIRTLEY 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 KIRTLEY 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 KIRTLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	165	6.21
White (Hispanic)	52	1.96
Mixed Race	33	1.24
Asian/Pacific	19	0.72
Native American/Alaskan	16	0.6
White (Caucasian)	2,370	89.27

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

Similar names to KIRTLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KIRTLEY.

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.