Explore the Family Name Scholey

The meaning of Scholey

English: habitational name from Scholey’s Bridge in Hemsworth (Yorkshire), which is recorded as Scollay in 1276. Alternatively, it may be from a lost place called Scholey in Rastrick (also in Yorkshire). The placenames both derive from Old Norse skáli ‘hut, shieling’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

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How common is the last name Scholey in the United States?

The popularity of the surname Scholey seems to have slightly declined in the United States according to the Decennial U.S. Census data. In 2000, Scholey ranked 97,384 in terms of popularity and this rank fell by about 23.42% to 120,187 in 2010. The census count for the name also dropped by 16.76% during the same period, going from 173 in 2000 to 144 in 2010. The proportion of people with this surname per 100k of the population decreased by 16.67%, meaning that the Scholey surname became less common between these two census years.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#97,384	#120,187	-23.42%
Count	173	144	-16.76%
Proportion per 100k	0.06	0.05	-16.67%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Scholey

As for ethnic identity, the census data reveals that most individuals with the Scholey surname identify as White. In 2000, about 94.22% of the Scholeys identified as White, although this percentage slightly dropped by 1.97% to 92.36% in 2010. No Scholeys identified as Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, Hispanic or American Indian and Alaskan Native in either 2000 or 2010, based on the Decennial U.S. Census data. There was also no record of individuals with the surname identifying with two or more races throughout this time period.

	2000	2010	Change
White	94.22%	92.36%	-1.97%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Two or More Races	0%	0%	0%
Hispanic	0%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%