The surname Pinkley
A surname, carried by 1,263 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P524
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,263 people named Pinkley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 244,454 Americans. That is up 7.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,171.
#20,871
rank among US surnames
1,263
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+7.9%
change since 2000 (was #20,935)
Who is named Pinkley
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Pinkley identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.0%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Pinkley has the Soundex code P524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P524.
Questions
- How common is the surname Pinkley?
- 1,263 people in the United States had the surname Pinkley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 244,454 Americans. It ranked 20,871st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Pinkley?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Pinkley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Pinkley getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,171 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,263 in 2010, up 7.9%.