The SHOCKLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,413	2675	0.005	46
United States (1880 census)	2,357	2575	0.005	47
Change since 1880	+10056	-100	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	4	156204	0	0
United Kingdom	26	27970	0	1

Top States for SHOCKLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Missouri	953	728	0.017	170
Tennessee	816	1148	0.014	143
Texas	728	3315	0.003	35
Maryland	704	898	0.013	133
California	636	4772	0.002	19
Top States for SHOCKLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	538	189	0.069	687
Missouri	953	728	0.017	170
Tennessee	816	1148	0.014	143
Maryland	704	898	0.013	133
Oklahoma	354	1422	0.010	103

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

Classification and Origin of SHOCKLEY

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 SHOCKLEY 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 SHOCKLEY 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 SHOCKLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	227	1.83
White (Hispanic)	163	1.31
Native American/Alaskan	99	0.8
Asian/Pacific	36	0.29
White (Caucasian)	10,515	84.71
Black/African American	1,373	11.06

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

Similar names to SHOCKLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHOCKLEY.

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.