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The REILEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,404 18246 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 2,370 2557 0.005 47
Change since 1880 -966 -15689 -0.004 -42
Other Countries
Australia 1 366618 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for REILEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 176 10439 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 169 9409 0.001 14
California 123 20287 0.000 4
New York 85 23023 0.000 4
Florida 76 22772 0.000 5
Top States for REILEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 29 6628 0.002 22
Pennsylvania 169 9409 0.001 14
Oregon 45 10056 0.001 13
Nevada 20 12430 0.001 10
Montana 9 17350 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of REILEY

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

Ethnic distribution of REILEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 44 3.13
White (Hispanic) 21 1.5
Mixed Race 17 1.21
Asian/Pacific 14 1
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.36
White (Caucasian) 1,303 92.81

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

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

Meaning of REILEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to REILEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as REILEY.

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 REILEY

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