The MARLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,075	5271	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	1,830	3240	0.004	37
Change since 1880	+4245	-2031	-0.002	-15
Other Countries
Australia	338	4665	0.002	21
United Kingdom	3,075	2023	0.007	67

Top States for MARLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	792	1629	0.010	98
Texas	444	5000	0.002	21
Pennsylvania	417	3885	0.003	34
California	402	7252	0.001	12
Florida	353	5956	0.002	22
Top States for MARLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Idaho	162	1148	0.013	125
North Carolina	792	1629	0.010	98
Alaska	58	1488	0.009	93
Rhode Island	57	3019	0.005	54
Delaware	41	3604	0.005	52

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

Classification and Origin of MARLEY

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 MARLEY 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 MARLEY 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 MARLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	382	6.29
White (Hispanic)	117	1.93
Mixed Race	92	1.51
Asian/Pacific	42	0.69
Native American/Alaskan	28	0.46
White (Caucasian)	5,414	89.12

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

Similar names to MARLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MARLEY.

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.