The NEELY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	23,308	1393	0.009	86
United States (1880 census)	5,436	1113	0.011	109
Change since 1880	+17872	-280	-0.002	-23
Other Countries
Australia	235	6519	0.001	14
United Kingdom	804	6241	0.002	18

Top States for NEELY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,049	1267	0.010	98
Tennessee	1,733	507	0.030	305
California	1,613	2044	0.005	48
Pennsylvania	1,431	979	0.012	117
North Carolina	1,156	1082	0.014	144
Top States for NEELY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	1,733	507	0.030	305
West Virginia	487	574	0.027	269
South Carolina	1,061	637	0.026	264
Mississippi	718	637	0.025	252
Alabama	644	1183	0.014	145

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

Classification and Origin of NEELY

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 NEELY 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 NEELY 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 NEELY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	345	1.48
White (Hispanic)	315	1.35
Native American/Alaskan	103	0.44
Asian/Pacific	77	0.33
White (Caucasian)	17,022	73.03
Black/African American	5,449	23.38

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

Similar names to NEELY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEELY.

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.