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The PHY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 563 37266 0 2
United States (1880 census) 102 30985 0 2
Change since 1880 +461 -6281 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 9 94829 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PHY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 153 4667 0.003 27
Pennsylvania 121 12858 0.001 10
Texas 89 17588 0.000 4
California 49 45802 0.000 1
New Jersey 31 33877 0.000 4
Top States for PHY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 153 4667 0.003 27
Pennsylvania 121 12858 0.001 10
Texas 89 17588 0.000 4
New Jersey 31 33877 0.000 4
Oklahoma 7 34017 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of PHY

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

Ethnic distribution of PHY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 419 74.42
Asian/Pacific 128 22.74
Mixed Race 9 1.6
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PHY in historical publications

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

Similar names to PHY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PHY.

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 PHY

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