The surname Lawley
A surname, carried by 2,292 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L400
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,292 people named Lawley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 134,706 Americans. That is down 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,347.
#13,306
rank among US surnames
2,292
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
-2.3%
change since 2000 (was #12,168)
Who is named Lawley
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Lawley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 91%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Lawley has the Soundex code L400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L400.
Questions
- How common is the surname Lawley?
- 2,292 people in the United States had the surname Lawley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 134,706 Americans. It ranked 13,306th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lawley?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Lawley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Lawley getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,347 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,292 in 2010, down 2.3%.