Kiely

Kiely is the 10,758th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,833 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 106,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,833
Rank: 10,758th
How common: 1 in 106,000
Per 100,000: 0.95

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cadhla (“descendant of Cadhla”), a byname from cadhla (“beautiful”). It could also be a variant of Keeley.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Kiely

Dean Kiely (born 1970)Irish association football player
Tom Kiely (1869–1951)Irish athlete

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

Surnames like Kiely

Also a first name

Kiely has been given to 849 American babies as a first name since 1969, peaking in 2008. 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.