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    The surname Gateley

    An English place surname, carried by 614 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex G340

    Gateley: #36,426 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Gateley #36,426, 614 people Gateley: #36,426 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Gateley #36,426, 614 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gateley is more common than 77.5% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English gāt (“goat”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to goat + -ley (“lea”). Compare Shipley (literally “sheep lea”).

    Gateley is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 614 people named Gateley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 502,843 Americans. That is up 8.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 565.

    #36,426
    rank among US surnames
    614
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.7%
    change since 2000 (was #37,145)

    Who is named Gateley

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

    94% of people named Gateley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gateley

    Gateley has the Soundex code G340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G340.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Gateley come from?
    From Old English gāt (“goat”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to goat + -ley (“lea”). Compare Shipley (literally “sheep lea”).
    How common is the surname Gateley?
    614 people in the United States had the surname Gateley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 502,843 Americans. It ranked 36,426th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gateley?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Gateley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Gateley?
    Gateley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Gateley getting more or less common?
    More common. 565 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 614 in 2010, up 8.7%.