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    The surname Tulley

    A surname, carried by 1,081 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T400

    Tulley: #23,500 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Tulley #23,500, 1,081 people Tulley: #23,500 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Tulley #23,500, 1,081 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tulley is more common than 85.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,081 people named Tulley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 285,611 Americans. That is up 6.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,013.

    #23,500
    rank among US surnames
    1,081
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.7%
    change since 2000 (was #23,411)

    Who is named Tulley

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

    83% of people named Tulley identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 5.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 7.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.5%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Tulley

    Tulley has the Soundex code T400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Tulley?
    1,081 people in the United States had the surname Tulley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 285,611 Americans. It ranked 23,500th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tulley?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Tulley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
    Is the surname Tulley getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,013 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,081 in 2010, up 6.7%.