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The OFFLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 220 80216 0 1
United States (1880 census) 56 46533 0 1
Change since 1880 +164 -33683 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 29 39418 0 2
United Kingdom 169 18238 0 4
Top States for OFFLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 73 13048 0.001 11
New York 30 69030 0.000 2
Washington 20 40569 0.000 3
California 14 155559 0.000 0
Florida 14 112112 0.000 1
Top States for OFFLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 73 13048 0.001 11
Wyoming 4 19509 0.001 8
Hawaii 7 18494 0.001 6
Washington 20 40569 0.000 3
Oregon 6 69021 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of OFFLEY

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 OFFLEY 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 OFFLEY 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 OFFLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 99 45
White (Caucasian) 85 38.64
Mixed Race 29 13.18
White (Hispanic) 7 3.18
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

Meaning of OFFLEY in historical publications

OFFLEY. Parishes in cos. Hertford and Stafford.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to OFFLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OFFLEY.

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 OFFLEY

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