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The LANEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,386 3171 0.004 38
United States (1880 census) 1,691 3464 0.003 34
Change since 1880 +8695 +293 +0.001 +4
Other Countries
Australia 140 10503 0.001 9
United Kingdom 309 12500 0.001 7
Top States for LANEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,265 971 0.016 157
Texas 809 2940 0.004 39
Alabama 775 992 0.017 174
Ohio 621 2306 0.005 55
South Carolina 606 1117 0.015 151
Top States for LANEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 775 992 0.017 174
North Carolina 1,265 971 0.016 157
South Carolina 606 1117 0.015 151
Maine 131 1815 0.010 103
Mississippi 208 1950 0.007 73

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

Classification and Origin of LANEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LANEY 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 LANEY 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 LANEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 161 1.55
White (Hispanic) 124 1.19
Native American/Alaskan 75 0.72
Asian/Pacific 43 0.41
White (Caucasian) 8,708 83.84
Black/African American 1,275 12.28

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

Meaning of LANEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to LANEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LANEY.

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 LANEY

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