The O'BEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	716	30716	0	3
United States (1880 census)	141	24715	0	3
Change since 1880	+575	-6001	+N/A	0
Other Countries
Australia	5	150502	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for O'BEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	91	20712	0.000	5
Texas	64	22196	0.000	3
Michigan	63	20490	0.001	6
Louisiana	59	8204	0.001	13
Massachusetts	54	14336	0.001	9
Top States for O'BEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	59	8204	0.001	13
New Hampshire	15	10211	0.001	12
Massachusetts	54	14336	0.001	9
West Virginia	15	8934	0.001	8
Michigan	63	20490	0.001	6

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

Classification and Origin of O'BEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the O'BEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of O'BEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	378	52.79
White (Caucasian)	310	43.3
Mixed Race	12	1.68
White (Hispanic)	9	1.26
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

O'BEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to O'BEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as O'BEY.

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.