The PRESLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	17,687	1866	0.007	66
United States (1880 census)	2,162	2789	0.004	43
Change since 1880	+15525	+923	+0.003	+23
Other Countries
Australia	146	10105	0.001	9
United Kingdom	547	8326	0.001	12

Top States for PRESLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	1,999	446	0.035	351
Texas	1,715	1525	0.008	82
Alabama	1,401	554	0.032	315
Georgia	1,279	885	0.016	156
Florida	1,029	2107	0.006	64
Top States for PRESLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	1,999	446	0.035	351
Alabama	1,401	554	0.032	315
Mississippi	729	639	0.026	256
Arkansas	572	640	0.021	214
Georgia	1,279	885	0.016	156

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

Classification and Origin of PRESLEY

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 PRESLEY 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 PRESLEY 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 PRESLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	253	1.43
White (Hispanic)	232	1.31
Native American/Alaskan	159	0.9
Asian/Pacific	88	0.5
White (Caucasian)	13,621	77.01
Black/African American	3,336	18.86

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

Similar names to PRESLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PRESLEY.

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.