Shealy

Shealy is the 7,381st most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,355 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 68,600.

By the numbers

People: 4,355
Rank: 7,381st
How common: 1 in 68,600
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced form of O'Shealy, an Anglicized form of Irish Ó Sealbhaig (“descendant of Sealbhach”), a byname from the adjective sealbhach (“wealthy”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.3%
Black, not Hispanic 6.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Shealy

Courtney Shealy (born 1977)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world record-holder

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

Surnames like Shealy

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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.