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    The surname Raley

    A surname, carried by 6,593 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R400

    Raley: #5,281 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Raley #5,281, 6,593 people Raley: #5,281 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Raley #5,281, 6,593 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Raley is more common than 96.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,593 people named Raley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 46,829 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,424.

    #5,281
    rank among US surnames
    6,593
    people in 2010
    2.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.6%
    change since 2000 (was #5,012)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,273Vollmer6,61446,681
    #5,274Burchfield6,61246,695
    #5,275Marchand6,61046,709
    #5,277Heiser6,60646,737
    #5,278Keil6,60346,758
    #5,279Mulcahy6,59546,815
    #5,280Amundson6,59446,822

    Who is named Raley

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

    91% of people named Raley identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Raley

    Raley has the Soundex code R400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Raley?
    6,593 people in the United States had the surname Raley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 46,829 Americans. It ranked 5,281st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Raley?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Raley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Raley getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,424 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,593 in 2010, up 2.6%.