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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

'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.

Meaning of NEELEY in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for NEELEY

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