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    The surname Otley

    An English place surname, carried by 310 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex O340

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Otley is more common than 60.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the unattested Old English personal name *Otta + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

    Otley 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 310 people named Otley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 995,953 Americans. That is down 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 326.

    #64,200
    rank among US surnames
    310
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -4.9%
    change since 2000 (was #58,257)

    Who is named Otley

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

    92% of people named Otley identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Otley

    Otley has the Soundex code O340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O340.

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Otley come from?
    From the unattested Old English personal name *Otta + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
    How common is the surname Otley?
    310 people in the United States had the surname Otley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 995,953 Americans. It ranked 64,200th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Otley?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Otley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Otley?
    Otley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Otley getting more or less common?
    Less common. 326 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 310 in 2010, down 4.9%.
    What are other spellings of Otley?
    Ottley.