How common is the surname Stickley?

2,165 people in the United States had the surname Stickley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 142,608 Americans. It ranked 13,944th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Stickley getting more or less common?

More common. 2,086 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,165 in 2010, up 3.8%.

The surname Stickley

An English place surname, carried by 2,165 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S324

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stickley is more common than 91.4% of them.

Origin

English origin

Habitational surname from a minor place in Northumberland, from either Old English stiġel (“stile; sharp point”), sticol (“high, steep, stickle”) or from a personal name *Sticca + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to stile + -ley (“lea”).

Stickley 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 2,165 people named Stickley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 142,608 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,086.

#13,944

rank among US surnames

2,165

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+3.8%

change since 2000 (was #13,393)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,938	Duplantis	2,166	142,542
#13,944	Trego	2,165	142,608
#13,949	Sherpa	2,164	142,674
#13,953	Kurian	2,163	142,739

Who is named Stickley

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

95% of people named Stickley identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as two or more races and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Two or more races 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Stickley

Stickley has the Soundex code S324, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S324.

Other English surnames

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Questions

Where does the surname Stickley come from?: Habitational surname from a minor place in Northumberland, from either Old English stiġel (“stile; sharp point”), sticol (“high, steep, stickle”) or from a personal name *Sticca + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to stile + -ley (“lea”).
How common is the surname Stickley?: 2,165 people in the United States had the surname Stickley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 142,608 Americans. It ranked 13,944th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Stickley?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Stickley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as two or more races.
What type of surname is Stickley?: Stickley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Stickley getting more or less common?: More common. 2,086 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,165 in 2010, up 3.8%.