The LIGHTSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,497	11547	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	340	12989	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+2157	+1442	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	1	36200	0	0

Top States for LIGHTSEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	438	1528	0.010	98
Georgia	413	2265	0.005	50
Florida	403	4698	0.003	25
Texas	314	5924	0.002	15
Mississippi	241	1592	0.008	85
Top States for LIGHTSEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	438	1528	0.010	98
Mississippi	241	1592	0.008	85
Georgia	413	2265	0.005	50
South Carolina	141	3546	0.004	35
Florida	403	4698	0.003	25

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

Classification and Origin of LIGHTSEY

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

Ethnic distribution of LIGHTSEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	431	17.26
Mixed Race	32	1.28
White (Hispanic)	25	1
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.36
Asian/Pacific	5	0.2
White (Caucasian)	1,995	79.9

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

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

Similar names to LIGHTSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LIGHTSEY.

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.