How common is the surname Fawley?

1,203 people in the United States had the surname Fawley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 256,646 Americans. It ranked 21,660th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Fawley?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Fawley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Fawley getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,244 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,203 in 2010, down 3.3%.

The surname Fawley

An English place surname, carried by 1,203 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fawley is more common than 86.7% of them.

Origin

English origin

From either Old English fealu (“yellow, fallow, dun”) or fealh (“fallow land”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to fallow + -ley (“lea”).

Fawley 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 1,203 people named Fawley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 256,646 Americans. That is down 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,244.

#21,660

rank among US surnames

1,203

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-3.3%

change since 2000 (was #19,968)

Who is named Fawley

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

97% of people named Fawley identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Faley

Surnames that sound like Fawley

Fawley has the Soundex code F400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F400.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Fawley come from?: From either Old English fealu (“yellow, fallow, dun”) or fealh (“fallow land”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to fallow + -ley (“lea”).
How common is the surname Fawley?: 1,203 people in the United States had the surname Fawley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 256,646 Americans. It ranked 21,660th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fawley?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Fawley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Fawley?: Fawley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Fawley getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,244 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,203 in 2010, down 3.3%.
What are other spellings of Fawley?: Faley.