How common is the surname Dunkley?

3,049 people in the United States had the surname Dunkley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 101,261 Americans. It ranked 10,520th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Dunkley?

Louisa Margaret Dunkley, Australian telegraphist and labor organizer (1866–1927), followed by Jo Dunkley.

Where is the surname Dunkley most common?

Wikidata records people named Dunkley in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Is the surname Dunkley getting more or less common?

More common. 2,479 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,049 in 2010, up 23%.

The surname Dunkley

A place surname, carried by 3,049 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D524

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dunkley is more common than 93.5% of them.

Origin

Possibly a habitational surname, from the village of Dinckley, in Lancashire.

Dunkley 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 3,049 people named Dunkley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 101,261 Americans. That is up 23% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,479.

#10,520

rank among US surnames

3,049

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+23%

change since 2000 (was #11,616)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,514	Konrad	3,052	101,162
#10,515	Amburgey	3,051	101,195
#10,517	Rymer	3,050	101,228
#10,520	McMorris	3,049	101,261
#10,525	Rippy	3,048	101,294
#10,528	Cumming	3,047	101,328

Who is named Dunkley

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

48% of people named Dunkley identified as Black (not Hispanic), 44% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Black (not Hispanic) 48%
White (not Hispanic) 44%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
Two or more races 2.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Famous Dunkleys

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Louisa Margaret Dunkley
Australian telegraphist and labor organizer (1866–1927)
Jo Dunkley
British astrophysicist (1979-)
Spencer Dunkley
British basketball player and coach, born 1969

Notable Dunkleys come mostly from the United Kingdom (2) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Dunckley

Surnames that sound like Dunkley

Dunkley has the Soundex code D524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D524.

Questions

Where does the surname Dunkley come from?: Possibly a habitational surname, from the village of Dinckley, in Lancashire.
How common is the surname Dunkley?: 3,049 people in the United States had the surname Dunkley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 101,261 Americans. It ranked 10,520th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dunkley?: In the 2010 Census, 48% of people named Dunkley identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 44% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Dunkley?: Louisa Margaret Dunkley, Australian telegraphist and labor organizer (1866–1927), followed by Jo Dunkley.
Where is the surname Dunkley most common?: Wikidata records people named Dunkley in the United Kingdom and Australia.
What type of surname is Dunkley?: Dunkley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Dunkley getting more or less common?: More common. 2,479 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,049 in 2010, up 23%.
What are other spellings of Dunkley?: Dunckley.