The NEELEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,857	3679	0.003	33
United States (1880 census)	1,854	3189	0.004	37
Change since 1880	+7003	-490	-0.001	-4
Other Countries
Australia	5	151205	0	0
United Kingdom	22	28319	0	0

Top States for NEELEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	853	2920	0.004	41
Ohio	610	2454	0.005	54
Tennessee	608	1523	0.011	107
California	581	5251	0.002	17
Indiana	533	1517	0.009	88
Top States for NEELEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	263	1249	0.012	118
Tennessee	608	1523	0.011	107
Kentucky	417	1483	0.010	103
Indiana	533	1517	0.009	88
Arkansas	212	1840	0.008	79

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

Classification and Origin of NEELEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	796	8.99
Mixed Race	146	1.65
White (Hispanic)	127	1.43
Native American/Alaskan	92	1.04
Asian/Pacific	32	0.36
White (Caucasian)	7,664	86.53

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

Similar names to NEELEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEELEY.

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.