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The surname Ratley

A surname, carried by 1,348 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R340

Ratley: #19,911 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Ratley #19,911, 1,348 people Ratley: #19,911 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Ratley #19,911, 1,348 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ratley is more common than 87.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,348 people named Ratley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 229,040 Americans. That is up 22% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,104.

#19,911
rank among US surnames
1,348
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+22.1%
change since 2000 (was #21,916)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#19,907McKissack1,349228,870
#19,911Clevinger1,348229,040

Who is named Ratley

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

78% of people named Ratley identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 78%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
  • Two or more races 2.1%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
  • 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 Ratley

Ratley has the Soundex code R340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R340.

Questions

How common is the surname Ratley?
1,348 people in the United States had the surname Ratley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 229,040 Americans. It ranked 19,911th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ratley?
In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Ratley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Ratley getting more or less common?
More common. 1,104 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,348 in 2010, up 22%.