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The YALE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,345 12181 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 989 5505 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +1356 -6676 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 12 76050 0 1
United Kingdom 356 11361 0.001 8
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 YALE

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 YALE 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 YALE 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 YALE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 49 2.09
White (Hispanic) 41 1.75
Asian/Pacific 24 1.02
Mixed Race 24 1.02
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.38
White (Caucasian) 2,198 93.73

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

Meaning of YALE in historical publications

YALE. A correspondent styles this " a genuine Cambrian name, from the family seat in Flintshire." ■

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 YALE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as YALE.

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 YALE

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