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    The surname Joly

    A French surname, carried by 1,434 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɑli/ 2 syllables Soundex J400

    Joly: #19,004 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Joly #19,004, 1,434 people Joly: #19,004 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Joly #19,004, 1,434 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Joly is more common than 88.3% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    From French Joly.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,434 people named Joly in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 215,304 Americans. That is up 9.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,305.

    #19,004
    rank among US surnames
    1,434
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.9%
    change since 2000 (was #19,232)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,004Joly1,434215,304
    #19,012McGuffey1,433215,454

    Who is named Joly

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

    79% of people named Joly identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 15%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • 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 Joly

    Joly has the Soundex code J400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J400.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Joly come from?
    From French Joly.
    How common is the surname Joly?
    1,434 people in the United States had the surname Joly in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 215,304 Americans. It ranked 19,004th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Joly?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Joly identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
    How do you pronounce Joly?
    Joly is /ˈd͡ʒɑli/, 2 syllables.
    Is the surname Joly getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,305 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,434 in 2010, up 9.9%.