Blakely

Blakely is the 3,121st most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,257 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 26,600.

By the numbers

People: 11,257
Rank: 3,121st
How common: 1 in 26,600
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Variant of Blakeley.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.9%
Black, not Hispanic 30.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Blakely

Susan Blakely (born 1948)American actress
Sara Blakely (born 1971)American businesswoman
Colin Blakely (1930–1987)Northern Irish actor
Rachel Blakely (born 1968)Australian actress

People named Blakely with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Blakely

Also a first name

Blakely has been given to 22,036 American babies as a first name since 1920, 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.