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    The surname Nealey

    A surname, carried by 1,689 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex N400

    Nealey: #16,876 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Nealey #16,876, 1,689 people Nealey: #16,876 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Nealey #16,876, 1,689 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Nealey is more common than 89.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,689 people named Nealey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 182,798 Americans. That is up 37% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,229.

    #16,876
    rank among US surnames
    1,689
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +37.4%
    change since 2000 (was #20,167)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,868Chmiel1,690182,690
    #16,876Melnik1,689182,798
    #16,881Locher1,688182,906

    Who is named Nealey

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

    70% of people named Nealey identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 70%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 26%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Nealey

    Nealey has the Soundex code N400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Nealey?
    1,689 people in the United States had the surname Nealey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 182,798 Americans. It ranked 16,876th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Nealey?
    In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Nealey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Nealey getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,229 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,689 in 2010, up 37%.