The OAKLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,733	1984	0.006	62
United States (1880 census)	4,024	1537	0.008	80
Change since 1880	+12709	-447	-0.002	-18
Other Countries
Australia	1,908	860	0.012	117
United Kingdom	9,519	630	0.021	207

Top States for OAKLEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,349	486	0.029	292
California	1,020	3063	0.003	30
Tennessee	964	909	0.017	169
Florida	947	2165	0.006	59
Texas	866	2650	0.004	42
Top States for OAKLEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,349	486	0.029	292
Tennessee	964	909	0.017	169
Kentucky	617	958	0.015	153
Oklahoma	354	1341	0.010	103
Indiana	557	1324	0.009	92

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

Classification and Origin of OAKLEY

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 OAKLEY 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 OAKLEY 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 OAKLEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	269	1.61
White (Hispanic)	261	1.56
Native American/Alaskan	90	0.54
Asian/Pacific	60	0.36
White (Caucasian)	14,579	87.13
Black/African American	1,473	8.8

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

Similar names to OAKLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OAKLEY.

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.