Blaney

At the 2020 census, 3,460 Americans bore the surname Blaney — 9,071st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 86,400.

By the numbers

People: 3,460
Rank: 9,071st
How common: 1 in 86,400
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh

Topographic surname, from Welsh blaenau, plural of blaen (“tip, point, apex”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.3%
Black, not Hispanic 6.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Blaney

Ryan Blaney (born 1993)American racing driver

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

Surnames like Blaney

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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.