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    The surname Blay

    A surname, carried by 1,229 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B400

    Blay: #21,320 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Blay #21,320, 1,229 people Blay: #21,320 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Blay #21,320, 1,229 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blay is more common than 86.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,229 people named Blay in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 251,217 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,109.

    #21,320
    rank among US surnames
    1,229
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.8%
    change since 2000 (was #21,848)

    Who is named Blay

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    70% of people named Blay identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 7.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 70%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 17%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 3.9%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Blay

    Blay has the Soundex code B400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Blay?
    1,229 people in the United States had the surname Blay in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 251,217 Americans. It ranked 21,320th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Blay?
    In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Blay identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Blay getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,109 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,229 in 2010, up 11%.