The surname Radley
An English surname, carried by 1,979 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex R340
Origin
English origin
From Old English rēad (“red”) + lēah (“wood, woodland clearing”).
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 1,979 people named Radley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 156,011 Americans. That is up 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,883.
Who is named Radley
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Radley identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Radley has the Soundex code R340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R340.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Radley come from?
- From Old English rēad (“red”) + lēah (“wood, woodland clearing”).
- How common is the surname Radley?
- 1,979 people in the United States had the surname Radley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 156,011 Americans. It ranked 14,946th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Radley?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Radley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Radley getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,883 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,979 in 2010, up 5.1%.