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The REEKIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 289 64385 0 1
United States (1880 census) 32 61647 0 1
Change since 1880 +257 -2738 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 105 13702 0.001 6
United Kingdom 1,083 4927 0.002 24
Top States for REEKIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 37 17574 0.001 6
New York 26 57158 0.000 1
Kansas 23 11855 0.001 9
Wisconsin 23 30865 0.000 4
Florida 21 58284 0.000 1
Top States for REEKIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 18 4553 0.003 29
Kansas 23 11855 0.001 9
Massachusetts 37 17574 0.001 6
New Hampshire 7 18679 0.001 6
Rhode Island 5 22181 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of REEKIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 270 93.43
Mixed Race 8 2.77
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
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 REEKIE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of REEKIE in historical publications

REEKIE. An Edinburgh surname. It may be derived from one of the localities called Reeky Linn, or Reeking Linn ; but why not from ' Auld Reekie ' itself 1

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 REEKIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as REEKIE.

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 REEKIE

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