Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Caley

    A surname, carried by 1,688 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C400

    Caley: #16,881 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Caley #16,881, 1,688 people Caley: #16,881 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Caley #16,881, 1,688 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Caley is more common than 89.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,688 people named Caley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 182,906 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,656.

    #16,881
    rank among US surnames
    1,688
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.9%
    change since 2000 (was #16,074)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,876Melnik1,689182,798
    #16,881Locher1,688182,906
    #16,887Howery1,687183,015

    Who is named Caley

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

    92% of people named Caley identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    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 Caley

    Caley has the Soundex code C400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Caley?
    1,688 people in the United States had the surname Caley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 182,906 Americans. It ranked 16,881st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Caley?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Caley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Caley getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,656 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,688 in 2010, up 1.9%.