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    The surname Reiley

    A surname, carried by 1,537 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R400

    Reiley: #18,116 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Reiley #18,116, 1,537 people Reiley: #18,116 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Reiley #18,116, 1,537 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Reiley is more common than 88.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,537 people named Reiley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 200,875 Americans. That is up 9.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,404.

    #18,116
    rank among US surnames
    1,537
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.5%
    change since 2000 (was #18,246)

    Who is named Reiley

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

    90% of people named Reiley identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Reiley

    Reiley 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 Reiley?
    1,537 people in the United States had the surname Reiley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 200,875 Americans. It ranked 18,116th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Reiley?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Reiley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Reiley getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,404 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,537 in 2010, up 9.5%.