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    The surname Gulley

    A surname, carried by 10,605 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex G400

    Gulley: #3,366 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Gulley #3,366, 10,605 people Gulley: #3,366 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Gulley #3,366, 10,605 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gulley is more common than 97.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 10,605 people named Gulley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 29,113 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,986.

    #3,366
    rank among US surnames
    10,605
    people in 2010
    3.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.2%
    change since 2000 (was #3,293)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,357Younger10,65828,968
    #3,358Toro10,65028,990
    #3,359Kitchens10,64728,998
    #3,360Libby10,63129,042
    #3,362Crider10,62129,069
    #3,363Newkirk10,62029,072
    #3,364Malcolm10,61829,078

    Who is named Gulley

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

    58% of people named Gulley identified as white (not Hispanic), 37% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 58%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 37%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Gulley

    Gulley 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 Gulley?
    10,605 people in the United States had the surname Gulley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 29,113 Americans. It ranked 3,366th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Gulley?
    In the 2010 Census, 58% of people named Gulley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 37% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Gulley getting more or less common?
    More common. 9,986 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,605 in 2010, up 6.2%.