The OKELLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,518	11473	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	156	23039	0	3
Change since 1880	+2362	+11566	+N/A	+6
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for OKELLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	623	1849	0.008	76
South Carolina	203	3054	0.005	51
Alabama	178	3539	0.004	40
Texas	176	10819	0.001	8
North Carolina	138	6114	0.002	17
Top States for OKELLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	623	1849	0.008	76
South Carolina	203	3054	0.005	51
Alabama	178	3539	0.004	40
Oklahoma	135	3714	0.004	39
Arkansas	91	3858	0.003	34

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

Classification and Origin of OKELLEY

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of OKELLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	201	7.98
Mixed Race	44	1.75
White (Hispanic)	42	1.67
Asian/Pacific	11	0.44
Native American/Alaskan	11	0.44
White (Caucasian)	2,209	87.73

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

Similar names to OKELLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OKELLEY.

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.