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    The surname Spratley

    A surname, carried by 1,450 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S163

    Spratley: #18,858 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Spratley #18,858, 1,450 people Spratley: #18,858 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Spratley #18,858, 1,450 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spratley is more common than 88.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,450 people named Spratley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 212,928 Americans. That is up 9.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,323.

    #18,858
    rank among US surnames
    1,450
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.6%
    change since 2000 (was #19,040)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,849Berber1,451212,781
    #18,858Zagorski1,450212,928
    #18,867Balistreri1,449213,075

    Who is named Spratley

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

    63% of people named Spratley identified as Black (not Hispanic), 31% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 63%
    • White (not Hispanic) 31%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 2.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Spratley

    Spratley has the Soundex code S163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S163.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Spratley?
    1,450 people in the United States had the surname Spratley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 212,928 Americans. It ranked 18,858th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Spratley?
    In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Spratley identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 31% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Spratley getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,323 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,450 in 2010, up 9.6%.