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    The surname Goley

    A surname, carried by 1,145 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G400

    Goley: #22,471 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Goley #22,471, 1,145 people Goley: #22,471 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Goley #22,471, 1,145 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Goley is more common than 86.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,145 people named Goley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 269,647 Americans. That is up 8.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,052.

    #22,471
    rank among US surnames
    1,145
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.8%
    change since 2000 (was #22,770)

    Who is named Goley

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

    86% of people named Goley identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Goley

    Goley 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 Goley?
    1,145 people in the United States had the surname Goley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 269,647 Americans. It ranked 22,471st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Goley?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Goley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Goley getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,052 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,145 in 2010, up 8.8%.