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The OREY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 306 61376 0 1
United States (1880 census) 72 39272 0 1
Change since 1880 +234 -22104 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for OREY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 68 32212 0.000 2
Mississippi 36 6500 0.001 13
Virginia 21 24864 0.000 3
Illinois 20 61957 0.000 2
Iowa 18 21487 0.001 6
Top States for OREY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 36 6500 0.001 13
Iowa 18 21487 0.001 6
Idaho 7 22428 0.001 5
Nevada 9 25326 0.000 5
Missouri 18 29845 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of OREY

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

Ethnic distribution of OREY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 231 75.49
Black/African American 57 18.63
White (Hispanic) 8 2.61
Mixed Race 6 1.96
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 OREY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of OREY in historical publications

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

Similar names to OREY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OREY.

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 OREY

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