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    The surname Boxley

    An English place surname, carried by 1,380 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B240

    Boxley: #19,559 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Boxley #19,559, 1,380 people Boxley: #19,559 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Boxley #19,559, 1,380 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Boxley is more common than 87.9% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English box (“box-tree”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to box + -ley (“lea”).

    Boxley 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 1,380 people named Boxley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 223,729 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,367.

    #19,559
    rank among US surnames
    1,380
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1%
    change since 2000 (was #18,594)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,551Nepomuceno1,381223,567
    #19,559Walder1,380223,729
    #19,567Kilbourn1,379223,891

    Who is named Boxley

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    62% of people named Boxley identified as Black (not Hispanic), 31% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.7% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 62%
    • White (not Hispanic) 31%
    • Two or more races 3.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Boxley

    Boxley has the Soundex code B240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B240.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Boxley come from?
    From Old English box (“box-tree”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to box + -ley (“lea”).
    How common is the surname Boxley?
    1,380 people in the United States had the surname Boxley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,729 Americans. It ranked 19,559th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Boxley?
    In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Boxley identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 31% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Boxley?
    Boxley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Boxley getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,367 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,380 in 2010, up 1.0%.