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    The surname Buley

    A surname, carried by 531 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B400

    Buley: #41,038 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Buley #41,038, 531 people Buley: #41,038 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Buley #41,038, 531 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Buley is more common than 74.7% of them.

    Origin

    Two possible origins: * A variant of the English surnames Beaulieu or Bulley. * An Americanized form of Czech, Polish and Slovak Bulej.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 531 people named Buley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 581,442 Americans. That is down 21% since 2000, when the Census counted 668.

    #41,038
    rank among US surnames
    531
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -20.5%
    change since 2000 (was #32,460)

    Who is named Buley

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

    88% of people named Buley identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.5%
    • Two or more races 3.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Buley

    Buley 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 Buley come from?
    Two possible origins: * A variant of the English surnames Beaulieu or Bulley. * An Americanized form of Czech, Polish and Slovak Bulej.
    How common is the surname Buley?
    531 people in the United States had the surname Buley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 581,442 Americans. It ranked 41,038th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Buley?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Buley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Buley getting more or less common?
    Less common. 668 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 531 in 2010, down 21%.