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The WRAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,812 2257 0.005 55
United States (1880 census) 2,997 2041 0.006 60
Change since 1880 +11815 -216 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 945 1742 0.006 58
United Kingdom 5,976 1050 0.013 130
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.

Classification and Origin of WRAY

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 WRAY 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 WRAY 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 WRAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 225 1.52
White (Hispanic) 173 1.17
Native American/Alaskan 71 0.48
Asian/Pacific 49 0.33
White (Caucasian) 12,564 84.82
Black/African American 1,732 11.69

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

Meaning of WRAY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of WRAY.

Similar names to WRAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WRAY.

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 WRAY

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