The MCCARLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,002	7666	0.001	15
United States (1880 census)	68	41214	0	1
Change since 1880	+3934	+33548	+N/A	+14
Other Countries
Australia	34	34261	0	2
United Kingdom	93	24328	0	2

Top States for MCCARLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	718	1076	0.016	161
Texas	675	3494	0.003	32
California	308	8940	0.001	9
Tennessee	210	3645	0.004	37
South Carolina	195	2989	0.005	49
Top States for MCCARLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	718	1076	0.016	161
Arkansas	137	2641	0.005	51
South Carolina	195	2989	0.005	49
Oklahoma	135	3499	0.004	39
Tennessee	210	3645	0.004	37

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

Classification and Origin of MCCARLEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MCCARLEY 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 MCCARLEY 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 MCCARLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	295	7.37
Mixed Race	63	1.57
White (Hispanic)	47	1.17
Native American/Alaskan	21	0.52
Asian/Pacific	17	0.42
White (Caucasian)	3,559	88.93

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

Similar names to MCCARLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCCARLEY.

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.