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    The surname Eley

    A surname, carried by 4,848 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex E400

    Eley: #6,921 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Eley #6,921, 4,848 people Eley: #6,921 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Eley #6,921, 4,848 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Eley is more common than 95.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,848 people named Eley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 63,685 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,675.

    #6,921
    rank among US surnames
    4,848
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #6,664)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,912Koval4,85563,593
    #6,913Gasca4,85463,606
    #6,914Fortney4,85363,620
    #6,915Gwinn4,85263,633
    #6,916Cassel4,85163,646
    #6,917Jahn4,85063,659
    #6,918Moorer4,84963,672

    Who is named Eley

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

    49% of people named Eley identified as white (not Hispanic), 47% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 49%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 47%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Eley

    Eley has the Soundex code E400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Eley?
    4,848 people in the United States had the surname Eley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,685 Americans. It ranked 6,921st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Eley?
    In the 2010 Census, 49% of people named Eley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 47% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Eley getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,675 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,848 in 2010, up 3.7%.