The OLNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,205	9334	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	1,343	4238	0.003	27
Change since 1880	+1862	-5096	-0.002	-15
Other Countries
Australia	255	6048	0.002	16
United Kingdom	710	6842	0.002	15

Top States for OLNEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	376	3190	0.004	38
California	365	7541	0.001	11
Washington	296	2536	0.005	50
New York	243	8028	0.001	13
Florida	202	9330	0.001	13
Top States for OLNEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	41	2545	0.007	67
Rhode Island	54	3026	0.005	52
Washington	296	2536	0.005	50
Utah	88	3224	0.004	39
Michigan	376	3190	0.004	38

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

Classification and Origin of OLNEY

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 OLNEY 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 OLNEY 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 OLNEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	132	4.12
White (Hispanic)	68	2.12
Mixed Race	65	2.03
Black/African American	46	1.44
Asian/Pacific	24	0.75
White (Caucasian)	2,870	89.55

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

Similar names to OLNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OLNEY.

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.