The surname Plumley
An English place surname, carried by 4,200 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P454
Origin
English origin
From Old English plūme (“plum”) + lēah (“woodland; clearing”). Equivalent to plum + -ley (“lea”).
Plumley 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 4,200 people named Plumley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 73,511 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,069.
Who is named Plumley
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Plumley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Plumley has the Soundex code P454, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P454.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Plumley come from?
- From Old English plūme (“plum”) + lēah (“woodland; clearing”). Equivalent to plum + -ley (“lea”).
- How common is the surname Plumley?
- 4,200 people in the United States had the surname Plumley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,511 Americans. It ranked 7,880th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Plumley?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Plumley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Plumley?
- Plumley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Plumley getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,069 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,200 in 2010, up 3.2%.