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    The surname Pulley

    A surname, carried by 8,007 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P400

    Pulley: #4,435 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pulley #4,435, 8,007 people Pulley: #4,435 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pulley #4,435, 8,007 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pulley is more common than 97.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 8,007 people named Pulley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 38,559 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,928.

    #4,435
    rank among US surnames
    8,007
    people in 2010
    2.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1%
    change since 2000 (was #4,134)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,426Steinmetz8,03238,439
    #4,427Budd8,02638,468
    #4,428Harrelson8,02338,483
    #4,430Staten8,02138,492
    #4,432Whitlow8,02038,497
    #4,433Sledge8,01938,502
    #4,434Ta8,01738,511

    Who is named Pulley

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

    69% of people named Pulley identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 26%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • 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 Pulley

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Pulley?
    8,007 people in the United States had the surname Pulley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 38,559 Americans. It ranked 4,435th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pulley?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Pulley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Pulley getting more or less common?
    More common. 7,928 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,007 in 2010, up 1.0%.