How common is the surname Frailey?

1,723 people in the United States had the surname Frailey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 179,191 Americans. It ranked 16,635th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Frailey getting more or less common?

More common. 1,636 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,723 in 2010, up 5.3%.

The surname Frailey

A surname, carried by 1,723 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F640

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Frailey is more common than 89.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,723 people named Frailey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 179,191 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,636.

#16,635

rank among US surnames

1,723

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+5.3%

change since 2000 (was #16,230)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,630	Vanriper	1,724	179,087
#16,635	Debellis	1,723	179,191
#16,641	Cornette	1,722	179,295
#16,644	Pinard	1,721	179,399

Who is named Frailey

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

91% of people named Frailey identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Frailey

Frailey has the Soundex code F640, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F640.

Questions

How common is the surname Frailey?: 1,723 people in the United States had the surname Frailey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 179,191 Americans. It ranked 16,635th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Frailey?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Frailey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Frailey getting more or less common?: More common. 1,636 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,723 in 2010, up 5.3%.