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The RIELEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 246 73412 0 1
United States (1880 census) 482 9978 0.001 10
Change since 1880 -236 -63434 +N/A -9
Other Countries
Australia 4 165436 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for RIELEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 55 13946 0.001 8
Connecticut 28 21678 0.001 8
Delaware 19 8992 0.002 24
Maryland 19 32164 0.000 4
California 12 188020 0.000 0
Top States for RIELEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 19 8992 0.002 24
Vermont 12 9169 0.002 20
Montana 12 15467 0.001 13
Connecticut 28 21678 0.001 8
Virginia 55 13946 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of RIELEY

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

Ethnic distribution of RIELEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 219 89.02
Black/African American 16 6.5
Mixed Race 6 2.44
Asian/Pacific 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 RIELEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of RIELEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to RIELEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RIELEY.

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 RIELEY

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