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The NAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,337 9006 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 904 5952 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +2433 -3054 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 131 11229 0.001 8
United Kingdom 129 21310 0 3
Top States for NAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 491 661 0.022 220
California 325 9129 0.001 10
Indiana 261 3336 0.004 43
Ohio 175 8560 0.002 15
Florida 159 12539 0.001 10
Top States for NAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 491 661 0.022 220
West Virginia 86 2848 0.005 48
Indiana 261 3336 0.004 43
Idaho 52 4002 0.004 40
Alaska 21 5169 0.003 33

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

Classification and Origin of NAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 241 7.22
White (Hispanic) 90 2.7
Black/African American 83 2.49
Mixed Race 61 1.83
Native American/Alaskan 44 1.32
White (Caucasian) 2,818 84.45

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

Meaning of NAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to NAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NAY.

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 NAY

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