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The OAKLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 16,733 1984 0.006 62
United States (1880 census) 4,024 1537 0.008 80
Change since 1880 +12709 -447 -0.002 -18
Other Countries
Australia 1,908 860 0.012 117
United Kingdom 9,519 630 0.021 207
Top States for OAKLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,349 486 0.029 292
California 1,020 3063 0.003 30
Tennessee 964 909 0.017 169
Florida 947 2165 0.006 59
Texas 866 2650 0.004 42
Top States for OAKLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,349 486 0.029 292
Tennessee 964 909 0.017 169
Kentucky 617 958 0.015 153
Oklahoma 354 1341 0.010 103
Indiana 557 1324 0.009 92

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

Classification and Origin of OAKLEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 269 1.61
White (Hispanic) 261 1.56
Native American/Alaskan 90 0.54
Asian/Pacific 60 0.36
White (Caucasian) 14,579 87.13
Black/African American 1,473 8.8

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

Meaning of OAKLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to OAKLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OAKLEY.

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 OAKLEY

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