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    The surname Kirkley

    An English place surname, carried by 2,197 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex K624

    Kirkley: #13,771 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kirkley #13,771, 2,197 people Kirkley: #13,771 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kirkley #13,771, 2,197 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kirkley is more common than 91.5% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old Norse kirkja (“church”) + Old English lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to church + -ley (“lea”).

    Kirkley 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 2,197 people named Kirkley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 140,531 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,084.

    #13,771
    rank among US surnames
    2,197
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.4%
    change since 2000 (was #13,400)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,764Bizzell2,198140,467
    #13,771Badgley2,197140,531
    #13,775Balke2,196140,595

    Who is named Kirkley

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

    85% of people named Kirkley identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Kirkley

    Kirkley has the Soundex code K624, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K624.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kirkley come from?
    From Old Norse kirkja (“church”) + Old English lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to church + -ley (“lea”).
    How common is the surname Kirkley?
    2,197 people in the United States had the surname Kirkley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 140,531 Americans. It ranked 13,771st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kirkley?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Kirkley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Kirkley?
    Kirkley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Kirkley getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,084 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,197 in 2010, up 5.4%.
    What are other spellings of Kirkley?
    Kirtley.