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    The surname Lindsley

    A surname, carried by 2,889 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L532

    Lindsley: #11,010 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lindsley #11,010, 2,889 people Lindsley: #11,010 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lindsley #11,010, 2,889 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lindsley is more common than 93.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,889 people named Lindsley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,869 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,867.

    #11,010
    rank among US surnames
    2,889
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.8%
    change since 2000 (was #10,301)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,003Charpentier2,891106,795
    #11,007Hipolito2,890106,832
    #11,010Guardiola2,889106,869
    #11,013Gatti2,888106,906
    #11,016Juneau2,887106,943

    Who is named Lindsley

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

    92% of people named Lindsley identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.4%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lindsley

    Lindsley has the Soundex code L532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L532.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lindsley?
    2,889 people in the United States had the surname Lindsley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,869 Americans. It ranked 11,010th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lindsley?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Lindsley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Lindsley getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,867 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,889 in 2010, up 0.8%.