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    The surname Sealey

    A surname, carried by 3,665 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S400

    Sealey: #8,934 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sealey #8,934, 3,665 people Sealey: #8,934 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sealey #8,934, 3,665 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sealey is more common than 94.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,665 people named Sealey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 84,242 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,228.

    #8,934
    rank among US surnames
    3,665
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.5%
    change since 2000 (was #9,283)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,925Epley3,66784,196
    #8,928Weigand3,66684,219
    #8,934Godin3,66584,242
    #8,936Nickelson3,66484,265
    #8,938Galligan3,66384,288
    #8,939Cram3,66284,311
    #8,941Zhen3,66184,334

    Who is named Sealey

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

    52% of people named Sealey identified as white (not Hispanic), 36% as Black (not Hispanic) and 7.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 52%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 36%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.6%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Sealey

    Sealey 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 Sealey?
    3,665 people in the United States had the surname Sealey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,242 Americans. It ranked 8,934th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sealey?
    In the 2010 Census, 52% of people named Sealey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 36% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sealey getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,228 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,665 in 2010, up 14%.
    What are other spellings of Sealey?
    Selley.