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    The surname Whitely

    A surname, carried by 1,488 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W340

    Whitely: #18,540 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Whitely #18,540, 1,488 people Whitely: #18,540 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Whitely #18,540, 1,488 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whitely is more common than 88.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,488 people named Whitely in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 207,490 Americans. That is up 7.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,380.

    #18,540
    rank among US surnames
    1,488
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.8%
    change since 2000 (was #18,473)

    Who is named Whitely

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

    72% of people named Whitely identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 72%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 23%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Whitely

    Whitely has the Soundex code W340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W340.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Whitely?
    1,488 people in the United States had the surname Whitely in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 207,490 Americans. It ranked 18,540th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whitely?
    In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Whitely identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Whitely getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,380 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,488 in 2010, up 7.8%.