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    The surname Stockley

    An English place surname, carried by 579 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S324

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stockley is more common than 76.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English stocc (“log, stump, tree trunk”) + lēah (“clearing, glade”). Equivalent to stock + -ley (“lea”).

    Stockley 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 579 people named Stockley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 533,239 Americans. That is down 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 671.

    #38,265
    rank among US surnames
    579
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -13.7%
    change since 2000 (was #32,338)

    Who is named Stockley

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

    80% of people named Stockley identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 80%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 15%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Stockley

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

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Stockley come from?
    From Old English stocc (“log, stump, tree trunk”) + lēah (“clearing, glade”). Equivalent to stock + -ley (“lea”).
    How common is the surname Stockley?
    579 people in the United States had the surname Stockley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 533,239 Americans. It ranked 38,265th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Stockley?
    In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Stockley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Stockley?
    Stockley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Stockley getting more or less common?
    Less common. 671 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 579 in 2010, down 14%.