How common is the surname Gravley?

1,815 people in the United States had the surname Gravley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 170,108 Americans. It ranked 15,995th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Gravley getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,819 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,815 in 2010, down 0.2%.

The surname Gravley

A surname, carried by 1,815 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G614

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gravley is more common than 90.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,815 people named Gravley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 170,108 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,819.

#15,995

rank among US surnames

1,815

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-0.2%

change since 2000 (was #14,928)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,995	Strope	1,815	170,108
#16,004	Portnoy	1,814	170,202

Who is named Gravley

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

93% of people named Gravley identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gravley

Gravley has the Soundex code G614, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G614.

Questions

How common is the surname Gravley?: 1,815 people in the United States had the surname Gravley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 170,108 Americans. It ranked 15,995th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gravley?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Gravley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Gravley getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,819 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,815 in 2010, down 0.2%.