How common is the surname Blea?

1,921 people in the United States had the surname Blea in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,721 Americans. It ranked 15,284th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Blea getting more or less common?

More common. 1,674 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,921 in 2010, up 15%.

The surname Blea

A surname, carried by 1,921 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blea is more common than 90.6% of them.

Origin

* As an English surname, variant of Blighe. Compare Blee. * As a Galician surname, variant of Brea.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,921 people named Blea in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 160,721 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,674.

#15,284

rank among US surnames

1,921

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+14.8%

change since 2000 (was #15,942)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,278	Stelter	1,922	160,638
#15,284	Fallis	1,921	160,721
#15,289	Jenkinson	1,920	160,805

Who is named Blea

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

73% of people named Blea identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 23% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.3% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 73%
White (not Hispanic) 23%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Blea

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

Questions

Where does the surname Blea come from?: * As an English surname, variant of Blighe. Compare Blee. * As a Galician surname, variant of Brea.
How common is the surname Blea?: 1,921 people in the United States had the surname Blea in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,721 Americans. It ranked 15,284th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Blea?: In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Blea identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 23% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Blea getting more or less common?: More common. 1,674 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,921 in 2010, up 15%.