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    The surname Selley

    A place surname, carried by 394 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S400

    Selley: #52,619 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Selley #52,619, 394 people Selley: #52,619 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Selley #52,619, 394 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Selley is more common than 67.6% of them.

    Origin

    Variant spelling of Sealey or a habitational surname from Selly Oak, which is from Old English sċylfe (“deck of a ship”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to shelf + -ley (“lea”).

    Selley is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 394 people named Selley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 783,618 Americans. That is down 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 441.

    #52,619
    rank among US surnames
    394
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -10.7%
    change since 2000 (was #45,651)

    Who is named Selley

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

    81% of people named Selley identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 14%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, 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 Selley

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Selley come from?
    Variant spelling of Sealey or a habitational surname from Selly Oak, which is from Old English sċylfe (“deck of a ship”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to shelf + -ley (“lea”).
    How common is the surname Selley?
    394 people in the United States had the surname Selley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 783,618 Americans. It ranked 52,619th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Selley?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Selley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Selley?
    Selley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Selley getting more or less common?
    Less common. 441 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 394 in 2010, down 11%.