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    The surname Pilley

    An English place surname, carried by 373 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P400

    Pilley: #55,121 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Pilley #55,121, 373 people Pilley: #55,121 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Pilley #55,121, 373 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pilley is more common than 66% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English pīl (“pile, post”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to pile + -ley (“lea”).

    Pilley is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 373 people named Pilley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 827,736 Americans. That is down 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 399.

    #55,121
    rank among US surnames
    373
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -6.5%
    change since 2000 (was #49,471)

    Who is named Pilley

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

    96% of people named Pilley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pilley

    Pilley has the Soundex code P400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P400.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Pilley come from?
    From Old English pīl (“pile, post”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to pile + -ley (“lea”).
    How common is the surname Pilley?
    373 people in the United States had the surname Pilley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 827,736 Americans. It ranked 55,121st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pilley?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Pilley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Pilley?
    Pilley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Pilley getting more or less common?
    Less common. 399 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 373 in 2010, down 6.5%.