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The surname Rackley

A surname, carried by 5,488 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R240

Rackley: #6,229 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rackley #6,229, 5,488 people Rackley: #6,229 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rackley #6,229, 5,488 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rackley is more common than 96.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,488 people named Rackley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 56,258 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,206.

#6,229
rank among US surnames
5,488
people in 2010
1.9
per 100,000 Americans
+5.4%
change since 2000 (was #6,077)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#6,225Gonsalez5,49556,187
#6,226Bramlett5,49456,197
#6,228Deberry5,49356,207
#6,229Rackley5,48856,258

Who is named Rackley

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

85% of people named Rackley identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 85%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 9.5%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
  • Two or more races 2.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Rackley

Rackley has the Soundex code R240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R240.

Questions

How common is the surname Rackley?
5,488 people in the United States had the surname Rackley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,258 Americans. It ranked 6,229th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rackley?
In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Rackley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Rackley getting more or less common?
More common. 5,206 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,488 in 2010, up 5.4%.