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    The surname Solley

    A surname, carried by 1,050 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S400

    Solley: #24,012 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Solley #24,012, 1,050 people Solley: #24,012 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Solley #24,012, 1,050 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Solley is more common than 85.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,050 people named Solley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 294,043 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,029.

    #24,012
    rank among US surnames
    1,050
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #23,152)

    Who is named Solley

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

    93% of people named Solley identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Solley

    Solley 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 Solley?
    1,050 people in the United States had the surname Solley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 294,043 Americans. It ranked 24,012th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Solley?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Solley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Solley getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,029 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,050 in 2010, up 2.0%.