Neely

Neely is the 1,567th most common surname in the United States, shared by 22,316 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,400.

By the numbers

People: 22,316
Rank: 1,567th
How common: 1 in 13,400
Per 100,000: 7.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.6%
Black, not Hispanic 22.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Neely

Cam Neely (born 1965)Canadian ice hockey player
Blake Neely (born 1969)American composer, conductor, and orchestrator

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

Surnames like Neely

Also a first name

Neely has been given to 2,630 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 1974. 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.