Last Name STALEY

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Local: Of Staley, a parish called Staley-bridge, near Ashton-under-Lyne, formerly Staveley, a common local name.
Origin English, Irish, Belgian

Rank 1,824 (2000 US census) 1,715 (1990 US census)
Count 18,081 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 83.91%, or 15172 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 12.27%, or 2219 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.49%, or 89 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.59%, or 107 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.37%, or 248 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.36%, or 246 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Shortest baby names

We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

Please, send us any information you may have about addition two character first names and especially ...


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