The RISLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,048	7574	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	1,785	3309	0.004	36
Change since 1880	+2263	-4265	-0.002	-21
Other Countries
Australia	22	48195	0	1
United Kingdom	398	10478	0.001	9

Top States for RISLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	362	3596	0.003	29
California	313	8602	0.001	9
New York	304	6435	0.002	16
Florida	266	7309	0.002	17
Indiana	262	2977	0.004	43
Top States for RISLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oklahoma	157	3009	0.005	45
Connecticut	148	3091	0.004	43
Indiana	262	2977	0.004	43
Alaska	24	3848	0.004	38
Arkansas	92	3565	0.003	34

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of RISLEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	58	1.43
Mixed Race	44	1.09
Native American/Alaskan	37	0.91
Asian/Pacific	18	0.44
Black/African American	12	0.3
White (Caucasian)	3,879	95.83

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

Similar names to RISLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RISLEY.

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.