The OTEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,208	12799	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	507	9575	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+1701	-3224	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	2	227535	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for OTEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	562	1866	0.008	79
Tennessee	151	4954	0.003	27
California	132	20093	0.000	4
Illinois	128	11715	0.001	10
Ohio	101	14552	0.001	9
Top States for OTEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	562	1866	0.008	79
West Virginia	58	3746	0.003	32
Tennessee	151	4954	0.003	27
Arkansas	62	5309	0.002	23
Washington DC	12	5381	0.002	21

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

Classification and Origin of OTEY

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

Ethnic distribution of OTEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	896	40.58
White (Hispanic)	54	2.45
Mixed Race	35	1.59
Asian/Pacific	11	0.5
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.36
White (Caucasian)	1,204	54.53

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

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

Similar names to OTEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OTEY.

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.