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    The surname Curlee

    A surname, carried by 2,371 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C640

    Curlee: #12,953 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Curlee #12,953, 2,371 people Curlee: #12,953 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Curlee #12,953, 2,371 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Curlee is more common than 92% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,371 people named Curlee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 130,217 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,359.

    #12,953
    rank among US surnames
    2,371
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #12,127)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,944Steffey2,373130,108
    #12,948Letson2,372130,163
    #12,953Silverberg2,371130,217
    #12,961Rine2,370130,272

    Who is named Curlee

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

    84% of people named Curlee identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Curlee

    Curlee has the Soundex code C640, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C640.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Curlee?
    2,371 people in the United States had the surname Curlee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 130,217 Americans. It ranked 12,953rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Curlee?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Curlee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Curlee getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,359 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,371 in 2010, up 0.5%.