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    The surname Copley

    An English place surname, carried by 6,568 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C140

    Copley: #5,303 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Copley #5,303, 6,568 people Copley: #5,303 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Copley #5,303, 6,568 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Copley is more common than 96.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English copp (“hilltop”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

    Copley 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 6,568 people named Copley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 47,008 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,485.

    #5,303
    rank among US surnames
    6,568
    people in 2010
    2.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.3%
    change since 2000 (was #4,973)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,300Silverstein6,57646,950
    #5,301Hume6,57346,972
    #5,302Lowell6,56947,000
    #5,303Copley6,56847,008
    #5,304Hazelwood6,56747,015

    Who is named Copley

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

    94% of people named Copley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Copleys

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • John Singleton Copley
      American painter (1738-1815)
    • Paul Copley
      British actor, born 1944
    • Teri Copley
      American actress, born 1961

    Notable Copleys come mostly from British Empire (1), the United Kingdom (1) and the United States (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Copley

    Copley has the Soundex code C140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C140.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Copley come from?
    From Old English copp (“hilltop”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
    How common is the surname Copley?
    6,568 people in the United States had the surname Copley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,008 Americans. It ranked 5,303rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Copley?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Copley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Copley?
    John Singleton Copley, American painter (1738-1815), followed by Paul Copley.
    Where is the surname Copley most common?
    Wikidata records people named Copley in British Empire, the United Kingdom and the United States.
    What type of surname is Copley?
    Copley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Copley getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,485 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,568 in 2010, up 1.3%.