How common is the surname Galey?

1,286 people in the United States had the surname Galey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 240,082 Americans. It ranked 20,601st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Galey?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Galey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Galey getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,310 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,286 in 2010, down 1.8%.

The surname Galey

A surname, carried by 1,286 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Galey is more common than 87.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,286 people named Galey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 240,082 Americans. That is down 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,310.

#20,601

rank among US surnames

1,286

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-1.8%

change since 2000 (was #19,174)

Who is named Galey

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

92% of people named Galey identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Galey

Galey has the Soundex code G400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G400.

Questions

How common is the surname Galey?: 1,286 people in the United States had the surname Galey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 240,082 Americans. It ranked 20,601st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Galey?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Galey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Galey getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,310 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,286 in 2010, down 1.8%.