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The SLAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,937 7782 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 554 8894 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +3383 +1112 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 7 118786 0 0
United Kingdom 59 25656 0 1
Top States for SLAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 440 4915 0.002 21
Alabama 436 1675 0.010 98
Mississippi 421 1080 0.015 148
Georgia 412 2441 0.005 50
Florida 322 6326 0.002 20
Top States for SLAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 421 1080 0.015 148
Alabama 436 1675 0.010 98
Georgia 412 2441 0.005 50
Louisiana 214 2801 0.005 48
Oregon 96 4759 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of SLAY

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 SLAY 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 SLAY 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 SLAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 899 22.83
Mixed Race 66 1.68
White (Hispanic) 34 0.86
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.48
Asian/Pacific 13 0.33
White (Caucasian) 2,906 73.81

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

Meaning of SLAY in historical publications

TIN SLAY. See Tlnsley.

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 SLAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SLAY.

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 SLAY

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