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    The surname Denley

    An English place surname, carried by 757 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D540

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Denley is more common than 81% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    "Dweller by the valley-clearing", from Old English denu (“valley”) + lēah (“wood clearing”).

    Denley 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 757 people named Denley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 407,854 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 747.

    #30,767
    rank among US surnames
    757
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.3%
    change since 2000 (was #29,728)

    Who is named Denley

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

    75% of people named Denley identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 75%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 18%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Denleigh
    • Denly

    Surnames that sound like Denley

    Denley has the Soundex code D540, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D540.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Denley come from?
    "Dweller by the valley-clearing", from Old English denu (“valley”) + lēah (“wood clearing”).
    How common is the surname Denley?
    757 people in the United States had the surname Denley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 407,854 Americans. It ranked 30,767th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Denley?
    In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Denley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Denley?
    Denley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Denley getting more or less common?
    More common. 747 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 757 in 2010, up 1.3%.
    What are other spellings of Denley?
    Denleigh and Denly.