How common is the surname Bunkley?

1,088 people in the United States had the surname Bunkley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 283,773 Americans. It ranked 23,386th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Bunkley getting more or less common?

More common. 1,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,088 in 2010, up 1.9%.

The surname Bunkley

A place surname, carried by 1,088 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B524

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bunkley is more common than 85.6% of them.

Origin

Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place or a variant of Bingley.

Bunkley is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,088 people named Bunkley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 283,773 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,068.

#23,386

rank among US surnames

1,088

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+1.9%

change since 2000 (was #22,481)

Who is named Bunkley

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

59% of people named Bunkley identified as Black (not Hispanic), 35% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 59%
White (not Hispanic) 35%
Two or more races 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%

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 Bunkley

Bunkley has the Soundex code B524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B524.

Questions

Where does the surname Bunkley come from?: Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place or a variant of Bingley.
How common is the surname Bunkley?: 1,088 people in the United States had the surname Bunkley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 283,773 Americans. It ranked 23,386th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bunkley?: In the 2010 Census, 59% of people named Bunkley identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 35% as white (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Bunkley?: Bunkley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Bunkley getting more or less common?: More common. 1,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,088 in 2010, up 1.9%.