The SEELY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,455	5805	0.002	20
United States (1880 census)	2,816	2170	0.006	56
Change since 1880	+2639	-3635	-0.004	-36
Other Countries
Australia	32	36082	0	2
United Kingdom	237	14843	0.001	5

Top States for SEELY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	501	5559	0.001	15
Texas	485	4349	0.002	23
Utah	364	813	0.016	163
Florida	280	6877	0.002	18
New York	277	6928	0.001	15
Top States for SEELY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	364	813	0.016	163
Idaho	72	2507	0.006	56
Oregon	172	2503	0.005	50
Washington	263	2792	0.004	45
Delaware	33	4127	0.004	42

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

Classification and Origin of SEELY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	73	1.34
Mixed Race	59	1.08
Native American/Alaskan	40	0.73
Asian/Pacific	39	0.71
Black/African American	35	0.64
White (Caucasian)	5,209	95.49

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

Similar names to SEELY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SEELY.

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.