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The surname Keithley

A surname, carried by 2,506 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K340

Keithley: #12,407 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Keithley #12,407, 2,506 people Keithley: #12,407 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Keithley #12,407, 2,506 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Keithley is more common than 92.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,506 people named Keithley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 123,203 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,483.

#12,407
rank among US surnames
2,506
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+0.9%
change since 2000 (was #11,599)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#12,399Lipman2,507123,153
#12,407Keithley2,506123,203
#12,411Bloss2,505123,252

Who is named Keithley

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

92% of people named Keithley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
  • Two or more races 2.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Keithley

Keithley has the Soundex code K340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K340.

Questions

How common is the surname Keithley?
2,506 people in the United States had the surname Keithley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 123,203 Americans. It ranked 12,407th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Keithley?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Keithley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Keithley getting more or less common?
More common. 2,483 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,506 in 2010, up 0.9%.