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The KLAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 360 53782 0 1
United States (1880 census) 57 46067 0 1
Change since 1880 +303 -7715 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 10 87042 0 1
United Kingdom 1 35913 0 0
Top States for KLAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 49 27412 0.000 4
Florida 43 36201 0.000 3
California 36 58971 0.000 1
Ohio 31 37754 0.000 3
New York 23 74759 0.000 1
Top States for KLAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 4 24196 0.001 5
Wisconsin 22 37156 0.000 4
Illinois 49 27412 0.000 4
West Virginia 6 17957 0.000 3
Maine 4 31217 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of KLAY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the KLAY surname.

Ethnic distribution of KLAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 331 91.94
White (Hispanic) 13 3.61
Black/African American 6 1.67
Asian/Pacific 5 1.39
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

KLAY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of KLAY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of KLAY.

Similar names to KLAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KLAY.

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 KLAY

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