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The surname Fendley

A surname, carried by 1,729 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F534

Fendley: #16,586 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Fendley #16,586, 1,729 people Fendley: #16,586 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Fendley #16,586, 1,729 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fendley is more common than 89.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,729 people named Fendley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 178,569 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,623.

#16,586
rank among US surnames
1,729
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+6.5%
change since 2000 (was #16,341)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,582Aune1,730178,466
#16,586Curto1,729178,569
#16,593Bruneau1,728178,672

Who is named Fendley

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

94% of people named Fendley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 2.0%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
  • Two or more races 1.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Fendley

Fendley has the Soundex code F534, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F534.

Questions

How common is the surname Fendley?
1,729 people in the United States had the surname Fendley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 178,569 Americans. It ranked 16,586th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fendley?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Fendley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Fendley getting more or less common?
More common. 1,623 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,729 in 2010, up 6.5%.