How common is the surname Schooley?

3,968 people in the United States had the surname Schooley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,809 Americans. It ranked 8,342nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Schooley?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Schooley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Schooley getting more or less common?

Less common. 4,053 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,968 in 2010, down 2.1%.

The surname Schooley

A surname, carried by 3,968 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schooley is more common than 94.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,968 people named Schooley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 77,809 Americans. That is down 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,053.

#8,342

rank among US surnames

3,968

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

-2.1%

change since 2000 (was #7,566)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,337	Grainger	3,972	77,730
#8,339	Densmore	3,971	77,750
#8,341	Eskridge	3,969	77,789
#8,342	Wadley	3,968	77,809
#8,345	Graybill	3,967	77,828

Who is named Schooley

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

95% of people named Schooley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Schooley

Schooley has the Soundex code S400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S400.

Questions

How common is the surname Schooley?: 3,968 people in the United States had the surname Schooley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,809 Americans. It ranked 8,342nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Schooley?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Schooley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Schooley getting more or less common?: Less common. 4,053 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,968 in 2010, down 2.1%.