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The ROYLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 984 23940 0 4
United States (1880 census) 318 13679 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +666 -10261 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 491 3277 0.003 30
United Kingdom 3,888 1597 0.008 85
Top States for ROYLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 74 26672 0.000 2
Florida 68 21284 0.000 4
New Jersey 64 13496 0.001 8
Nebraska 61 3550 0.004 36
Missouri 54 11065 0.001 10
Top States for ROYLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 61 3550 0.004 36
Delaware 16 7393 0.002 20
Utah 26 7342 0.001 12
Missouri 54 11065 0.001 10
Nevada 19 10497 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 ROYLE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ROYLE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ROYLE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ROYLE by picking someone at random in Nebraska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ROYLE

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 ROYLE 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 ROYLE 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 ROYLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 941 95.63
White (Hispanic) 16 1.63
Black/African American 11 1.12
Mixed Race 9 0.91
Asian/Pacific 7 0.71
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of ROYLE in historical publications

ROYLE. Perhaps Ryall, a township in

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 ROYLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROYLE.

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 ROYLE

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