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    The surname Owsley

    A surname, carried by 2,932 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex O240

    Owsley: #10,866 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Owsley #10,866, 2,932 people Owsley: #10,866 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Owsley #10,866, 2,932 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Owsley is more common than 93.3% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Ouseley.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,932 people named Owsley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 105,302 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,917.

    #10,866
    rank among US surnames
    2,932
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #10,155)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,857Munday2,934105,230
    #10,860Messmer2,933105,266
    #10,866Owsley2,932105,302
    #10,871Helmuth2,931105,338

    Who is named Owsley

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

    83% of people named Owsley identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Owsleys

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • William Owsley
      Associate justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the 16th Governor of Kentucky (1782

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Owsley

    Owsley has the Soundex code O240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O240.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Owsley come from?
    Variant of Ouseley.
    How common is the surname Owsley?
    2,932 people in the United States had the surname Owsley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,302 Americans. It ranked 10,866th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Owsley?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Owsley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Owsley?
    William Owsley, associate justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the 16th Governor of Kentucky (1782.
    Where is the surname Owsley most common?
    Wikidata records people named Owsley in the United States.
    Is the surname Owsley getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,917 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,932 in 2010, up 0.5%.