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The PELLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,523 17165 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 269 15525 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +1254 -1640 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 30 38058 0 2
United Kingdom 74 25066 0 2
Top States for PELLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 144 16914 0.000 4
Florida 116 15189 0.001 7
Ohio 108 12212 0.001 10
Massachusetts 92 8804 0.001 14
Texas 90 16903 0.000 4
Top States for PELLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 49 3872 0.003 27
Rhode Island 20 7808 0.002 19
New Hampshire 22 7176 0.002 18
Massachusetts 92 8804 0.001 14
Oklahoma 46 8564 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of PELLEY

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

Ethnic distribution of PELLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 38 2.5
White (Hispanic) 32 2.1
Mixed Race 23 1.51
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.46
Asian/Pacific 6 0.39
White (Caucasian) 1,417 93.04

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

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

Meaning of PELLEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to PELLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PELLEY.

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 PELLEY

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