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The REEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,263 6018 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 1,576 3672 0.003 32
Change since 1880 +3687 -2346 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 2 232965 0 0
United Kingdom 208 16052 0 5
Top States for REEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 530 2282 0.007 66
Indiana 458 1793 0.008 75
Texas 361 5902 0.002 17
California 303 9347 0.001 9
West Virginia 272 1081 0.015 150
Top States for REEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 272 1081 0.015 150
Indiana 458 1793 0.008 75
North Carolina 530 2282 0.007 66
Mississippi 135 2778 0.005 47
Tennessee 238 3409 0.004 42

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

Classification and Origin of REEL

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

Ethnic distribution of REEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 381 7.24
Mixed Race 78 1.48
White (Hispanic) 65 1.24
Native American/Alaskan 41 0.78
Asian/Pacific 21 0.4
White (Caucasian) 4,677 88.87

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

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

Meaning of REEL in historical publications

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

Similar names to REEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as REEL.

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 REEL

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