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    The surname Reily

    A surname, carried by 1,382 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R400

    Reily: #19,538 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Reily #19,538, 1,382 people Reily: #19,538 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Reily #19,538, 1,382 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Reily is more common than 88% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,382 people named Reily in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 223,405 Americans. That is up 38% since 2000, when the Census counted 999.

    #19,538
    rank among US surnames
    1,382
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +38.3%
    change since 2000 (was #23,657)

    Who is named Reily

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

    86% of people named Reily identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • 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 Reily

    Reily 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 Reily?
    1,382 people in the United States had the surname Reily in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,405 Americans. It ranked 19,538th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Reily?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Reily identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Reily getting more or less common?
    More common. 999 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,382 in 2010, up 38%.