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The RAYL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,897 14438 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 392 11681 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1505 -2757 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for RAYL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 254 3213 0.004 42
Ohio 237 6141 0.002 21
Michigan 177 7376 0.002 18
California 154 16566 0.000 5
Missouri 116 6551 0.002 21
Top States for RAYL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 254 3213 0.004 42
Kansas 110 3205 0.004 41
Wyoming 12 6374 0.002 24
Utah 51 5095 0.002 23
Ohio 237 6141 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of RAYL

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

Ethnic distribution of RAYL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 34 1.79
Mixed Race 32 1.69
White (Hispanic) 32 1.69
White (Caucasian) 1,785 94.1
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of RAYL in historical publications

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

Similar names to RAYL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAYL.

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 RAYL

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