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The PAULEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,610 3124 0.004 39
United States (1880 census) 1,346 4221 0.003 27
Change since 1880 +9264 +1097 +0.001 +12
Other Countries
Australia 142 10381 0.001 9
United Kingdom 545 8338 0.001 12
Top States for PAULEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 2,013 84 0.111 1,113
Ohio 1,008 1386 0.009 89
Virginia 643 1510 0.009 91
California 589 5047 0.002 17
Florida 511 4134 0.003 32
Top States for PAULEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 2,013 84 0.111 1,113
Iowa 278 1306 0.009 95
Virginia 643 1510 0.009 91
Ohio 1,008 1386 0.009 89
Missouri 384 1988 0.007 69

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

Classification and Origin of PAULEY

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 PAULEY 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 PAULEY 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 PAULEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 335 3.16
White (Hispanic) 146 1.38
Mixed Race 105 0.99
Native American/Alaskan 51 0.48
Asian/Pacific 45 0.42
White (Caucasian) 9,928 93.57

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

Meaning of PAULEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to PAULEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAULEY.

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 PAULEY

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