Keeley

Keeley is the 6,381st most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,125 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 58,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,125
Rank: 6,381st
How common: 1 in 58,300
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized from Irish Ó Caollaidhe (“descendant of Caollaidhe”), a personal name based on the adjective caol (“slender, graceful”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.6%
Black, not Hispanic 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Surnames like Keeley

Also a first name

Keeley has been given to 6,741 American babies as a first name since 1957, peaking in 2007. 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.