The VAIL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,042	3270	0.004	37
United States (1880 census)	4,390	1420	0.009	88
Change since 1880	+5652	-1850	-0.005	-51
Other Countries
Australia	93	15234	0.001	6
United Kingdom	318	12275	0.001	7

Top States for VAIL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	887	3364	0.003	26
New York	743	2510	0.004	39
Florida	591	3413	0.004	37
Illinois	489	2570	0.004	39
Texas	463	4518	0.002	22
Top States for VAIL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	127	1797	0.010	100
Idaho	122	1421	0.009	94
Arkansas	226	1567	0.008	85
Washington	463	1542	0.008	79
Kansas	185	1673	0.007	69

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

Classification and Origin of VAIL

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 VAIL 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 VAIL 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 VAIL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	487	4.85
White (Hispanic)	255	2.54
Mixed Race	143	1.42
Asian/Pacific	80	0.8
Native American/Alaskan	52	0.52
White (Caucasian)	9,025	89.87

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

Similar names to VAIL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as VAIL.

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.