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    The surname Bulley

    An English place surname, carried by 356 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B400

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bulley is more common than 64.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English bula (“bull”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”); equivalent to bull + -ley (“lea”).

    Bulley is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 356 people named Bulley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 867,263 Americans. That is down 9.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 392.

    #57,234
    rank among US surnames
    356
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -9.2%
    change since 2000 (was #50,178)

    Who is named Bulley

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

    72% of people named Bulley identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 72%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 22%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Bulley

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

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Bulley come from?
    From Old English bula (“bull”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”); equivalent to bull + -ley (“lea”).
    How common is the surname Bulley?
    356 people in the United States had the surname Bulley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 867,263 Americans. It ranked 57,234th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bulley?
    In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Bulley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Bulley?
    Bulley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bulley getting more or less common?
    Less common. 392 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 356 in 2010, down 9.2%.
    What are other spellings of Bulley?
    Buley.