The surname Ackerley
An English place surname, carried by 510 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex A264
Origin
English origin
Habitational surname from a lost or minor place, from Old English æcer (“field”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Ackerley is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 510 people named Ackerley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 605,383 Americans. That is up 19% since 2000, when the Census counted 429.
Who is named Ackerley
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Ackerley identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Ackerly
- Akerley
- Akerly
Ackerley has the Soundex code A264, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A264.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Ackerley come from?
- Habitational surname from a lost or minor place, from Old English æcer (“field”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
- How common is the surname Ackerley?
- 510 people in the United States had the surname Ackerley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 605,383 Americans. It ranked 42,511th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Ackerley?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Ackerley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Ackerley?
- Ackerley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Ackerley getting more or less common?
- More common. 429 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 510 in 2010, up 19%.
- What are other spellings of Ackerley?
- Ackerly, Akerley and Akerly.