Wiley

At the 2020 census, 46,986 Americans bore the surname Wiley — 716th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,361.

By the numbers

People: 46,986
Rank: 716th
How common: 1 in 6,361
Per 100,000: 15.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 62.3%
Black, not Hispanic 28.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Wiley

Kehinde Wiley (born 1977)African-American painter
Caleb Wiley (born 2004)American soccer player
Mildred Wiley (1901–2000)American high jumper
Wiley (born 1979)English rapper and record producer
George E. Wiley (1881–1954)American racing cyclist
Alexander Wiley (1884–1967)American politician
Harvey Washington Wiley (1844–1930)American chemist

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

Surnames like Wiley

Also a first name

Wiley has been given to 18,794 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. 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.