How common is the surname Feeley?

4,101 people in the United States had the surname Feeley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,285 Americans. It ranked 8,084th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Feeley?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Feeley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Feeley?

Heather Mitts, American soccer player.

Where is the surname Feeley most common?

Wikidata records people named Feeley in the United States.

Is the surname Feeley getting more or less common?

Less common. 4,117 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,101 in 2010, down 0.4%.

The surname Feeley

An Irish surname, carried by 4,101 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Feeley is more common than 95% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Reduced form of McFeeley or a variant of Falvey.

One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,101 people named Feeley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,285 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,117.

#8,084

rank among US surnames

4,101

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

-0.4%

change since 2000 (was #7,452)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,076	Lovely	4,104	75,230
#8,080	Carraway	4,103	75,249
#8,082	Villavicencio	4,102	75,267
#8,084	Trail	4,101	75,285
#8,087	Debord	4,100	75,304
#8,089	Medford	4,099	75,322
#8,091	Holstein	4,098	75,341

Who is named Feeley

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

95% of people named Feeley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Feeleys

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Heather Mitts
American soccer player, born 1978

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Feeley

Feeley has the Soundex code F400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F400.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Feeley come from?: Reduced form of McFeeley or a variant of Falvey.
How common is the surname Feeley?: 4,101 people in the United States had the surname Feeley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,285 Americans. It ranked 8,084th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Feeley?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Feeley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Feeley?: Heather Mitts, American soccer player.
Where is the surname Feeley most common?: Wikidata records people named Feeley in the United States.
Is the surname Feeley getting more or less common?: Less common. 4,117 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,101 in 2010, down 0.4%.