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The PAYA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 169 99214 0 1
United States (1880 census) 31 62672 0 1
Change since 1880 +138 -36542 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 2 228616 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PAYA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 38 61200 0.000 1
Vermont 35 3218 0.006 57
Illinois 25 56194 0.000 2
Florida 16 95583 0.000 1
Arizona 13 43132 0.000 3
Top States for PAYA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 35 3218 0.006 57
Nevada 9 29288 0.000 5
Arizona 13 43132 0.000 3
Illinois 25 56194 0.000 2
Washington 7 94185 0.000 1

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

Classification and Origin of PAYA

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

Ethnic distribution of PAYA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 76 44.97
Native American/Alaskan 38 22.49
White (Hispanic) 30 17.75
Asian/Pacific 20 11.83
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PAYA in historical publications

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

Similar names to PAYA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAYA.

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 PAYA

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