Blakeley

At the 2020 census, 2,752 Americans bore the surname Blakeley — 11,039th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 109,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,752
Rank: 11,039th
How common: 1 in 109,000
Per 100,000: 0.92

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from several minor places in England, from Old English blæc (“black”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”). Equivalent.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Blakeley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.8%
Black, not Hispanic 8.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Surnames like Blakeley

Also a first name

Blakeley has been given to 1,453 American babies as a first name since 1976, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.