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    The surname Sheley

    A surname, carried by 1,670 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S400

    Sheley: #17,014 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sheley #17,014, 1,670 people Sheley: #17,014 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sheley #17,014, 1,670 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sheley is more common than 89.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,670 people named Sheley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 184,878 Americans. That is up 5.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,578.

    #17,014
    rank among US surnames
    1,670
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.8%
    change since 2000 (was #16,694)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,005Kebede1,671184,767
    #17,014Arocha1,670184,878

    Who is named Sheley

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

    90% of people named Sheley identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.3%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • 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 Sheley

    Sheley 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 Sheley?
    1,670 people in the United States had the surname Sheley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 184,878 Americans. It ranked 17,014th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sheley?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Sheley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sheley getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,578 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,670 in 2010, up 5.8%.