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    The surname Padley

    An English place surname, carried by 356 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P340

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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). Padley is more common than 64.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From either the Old English personal name Padda or padde (“toad”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

    Padley 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 356 people named Padley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 867,263 Americans. That is down 8.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 387.

    #57,234
    rank among US surnames
    356
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -8%
    change since 2000 (was #50,686)

    Who is named Padley

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

    96% of people named Padley identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Padley

    Padley has the Soundex code P340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P340.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Padley come from?
    From either the Old English personal name Padda or padde (“toad”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
    How common is the surname Padley?
    356 people in the United States had the surname Padley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 867,263 Americans. It ranked 57,234th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Padley?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Padley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Padley?
    Padley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Padley getting more or less common?
    Less common. 387 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 356 in 2010, down 8.0%.