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    The surname Pursley

    A surname, carried by 4,091 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P624

    Pursley: #8,103 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pursley #8,103, 4,091 people Pursley: #8,103 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pursley #8,103, 4,091 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pursley is more common than 95% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,091 people named Pursley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,469 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,046.

    #8,103
    rank among US surnames
    4,091
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #7,582)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,097Burnell4,09575,396
    #8,101Burrus4,09475,414
    #8,102Kania4,09275,451
    #8,103June4,09175,469
    #8,106Llanos4,08975,506
    #8,110Dunson4,08875,525

    Who is named Pursley

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

    88% of people named Pursley identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pursley

    Pursley has the Soundex code P624, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P624.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Pursley?
    4,091 people in the United States had the surname Pursley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,469 Americans. It ranked 8,103rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pursley?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Pursley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Pursley getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,046 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,091 in 2010, up 1.1%.