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The REA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 13,708 2423 0.005 51
United States (1880 census) 2,934 2079 0.006 59
Change since 1880 +10774 -344 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 1,078 1532 0.007 66
United Kingdom 4,337 1452 0.009 94
Top States for REA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,721 1887 0.005 51
Texas 1,200 2011 0.006 58
Illinois 645 2002 0.005 52
Pennsylvania 640 2376 0.005 52
Michigan 633 1771 0.006 64
Top States for REA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oregon 306 1372 0.009 89
Colorado 360 1558 0.008 84
Mississippi 215 1857 0.008 76
Arkansas 201 1803 0.008 75
Wyoming 36 1748 0.007 73

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

Classification and Origin of REA

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the REA 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 REA 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 REA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 169 1.23
Asian/Pacific 155 1.13
Black/African American 144 1.05
Native American/Alaskan 58 0.42
White (Caucasian) 10,764 78.52
White (Hispanic) 2,419 17.65

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

Meaning of REA in historical publications

REA. See Ray, and Rae.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to REA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as REA.

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 REA

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