The SEELEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,735	3097	0.004	40
United States (1880 census)	3,545	1727	0.007	71
Change since 1880	+7190	-1370	-0.003	-31
Other Countries
Australia	324	4854	0.002	20
United Kingdom	1,516	3716	0.003	33

Top States for SEELEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,409	1287	0.007	74
California	774	3870	0.002	23
Michigan	756	1456	0.008	76
Pennsylvania	657	2301	0.005	53
Florida	604	3398	0.004	38
Top States for SEELEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	244	1046	0.019	191
Utah	212	1447	0.009	95
Idaho	103	1762	0.008	80
Michigan	756	1456	0.008	76
New York	1,409	1287	0.007	74

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

Classification and Origin of SEELEY

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 SEELEY 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 SEELEY 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 SEELEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	196	1.83
Mixed Race	167	1.56
White (Hispanic)	143	1.33
Native American/Alaskan	108	1.01
Asian/Pacific	61	0.57
White (Caucasian)	10,060	93.71

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

Similar names to SEELEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SEELEY.

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.