Gately Surname
Approximately 5,280 people bear this surname
Gately Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Gateley,' a parish in Norfolk, near Fakenham.
Johannes de Gaythele, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
Gately Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 3,866 | 1:93,756 | 10,528 |
| Ireland | 575 | 1:8,189 | 1,152 |
| Australia | 416 | 1:64,894 | 7,770 |
| England | 314 | 1:177,446 | 16,095 |
| Canada | 28 | 1:1,315,914 | 92,927 |
| New Zealand | 25 | 1:181,133 | 19,287 |
| Wales | 12 | 1:257,878 | 14,969 |
| Scotland | 10 | 1:535,382 | 20,332 |
| Northern Ireland | 8 | 1:230,630 | 10,839 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| China | 3 | 1:455,773,855 | 21,925 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 354 | 1:12,514 | 1,694 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 65 | 1:375,006 | 23,176 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:1,871,608 | 27,884 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 745 | 1:67,408 | 7,311 |
Gately (18) may also be a first name.
Gately Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Gateley,' a parish in Norfolk, near Fakenham.
Johannes de Gaythele, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
Ó Gatlaoich A south Roscommon name.
Keightley, an English name found in Co. Derry, is an occasional synonym. SIF 75
Woulfe in a two line note on Ó Gatlaoich gives Keatley, Keitley and Keightley, as well as Gately, as the anglicized forms of it. There may have been a few isolated instances of this; but in fact Keightley and its,variants are English names taken from a place in Yorkshire. None of them appears as a synonym of Gately in Matheson's Synonymes. Birth registrations indicate that the few Keightley families in Ireland are almost all found in Ulster or Dublin; Gately on the other hand, the true modern form of Ó Gatlaoich, is peculiar to Co. Roscommon and adjacent areas, particularly the town and barony of Athlone. Any references to the name Gately I have met in records earlier than 1800 are to the part of the country mentioned above, e.g. to John Gately, a miller, of Ahascragh, in 1746.The fact that MacGattely, not O'Gattely, appears in the “census” of 1659 as one of the principal names in the barony of Athlone can be disregarded, as the clerks who compiled that document frequently confused these prefixes in the case of names beginning with C or G. Keightly references are fairly numerous owing to the prominence of the family of Lord-Justice Thomas Keightley (c. 1650-1719): these, however, were definitely not of the Ó Gatlaoich sept: the family came to Ireland from Hertfordshire.
Ó Gatlaoich A south Roscommon name.
Keightley, an English name found in Co. Derry, is an occasional synonym. SIF 75
(English) One who came from Gately (clearing where goats were kept), in Norfolk.
Gately Demographics
Average Gately Salary in
United States
$50,260 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Gately Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gately Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Gately occurs in The United States more than any other country/territory. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Gately? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 90,743rd most frequently held surname in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 1,380,217 people. The last name Gately is predominantly found in The Americas, where 71 percent of Gately live; 71 percent live in North America and 71 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 2,608,198th most widely held first name world-wide, borne by 18 people.
Gately is most frequently used in The United States, where it is borne by 3,866 people, or 1 in 93,756. In The United States Gately is primarily concentrated in: Massachusetts, where 25 percent live, California, where 8 percent live and New York, where 8 percent live. Apart from The United States it exists in 23 countries. It is also common in Ireland, where 11 percent live and Australia, where 8 percent live.
Gately Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Gately has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname grew 519 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Ireland it grew 162 percent between 1901 and 2014; in England it grew 483 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Scotland it grew 500 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Gately Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the Gately surname is principally Catholic (99%) in Ireland.
In The United States those holding the Gately surname are 13.77% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 67% registered with the party.
The amount Gately earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 16.48% more than the national average, earning $50,260 USD per year and in Canada they earn 28.28% more than the national average, earning $63,731 CAD per year.
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