How common is the surname Tooley?

4,371 people in the United States had the surname Tooley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,635 Americans. It ranked 7,605th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Tooley getting more or less common?

More common. 4,149 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,371 in 2010, up 5.4%.

The surname Tooley

A Norse surname, carried by 4,371 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tooley is more common than 95.3% of them.

Origin

Norse origin

Anglicized form of the Old Norse personal name Þórleifr, which is composed of the elements Þórr (“Thor”) and leifr (“inheritor”) (compare líf). (Note: Tooley Street in London, England, is of Old Norse origin, but is not from Þórleifr. It is a shortening of Sant Ole, meaning Saint Olaf.)

One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,371 people named Tooley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,635 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,149.

#7,605

rank among US surnames

4,371

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+5.4%

change since 2000 (was #7,409)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,599	Renshaw	4,374	70,587
#7,600	Peele	4,373	70,603
#7,601	Bachmann	4,372	70,619
#7,605	Smedley	4,371	70,635
#7,607	Go	4,370	70,651
#7,609	Minnich	4,369	70,667

Who is named Tooley

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

84% of people named Tooley identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 84%
Black (not Hispanic) 10%
Two or more races 2.4%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Tooley

Tooley has the Soundex code T400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T400.

Other Norse surnames

All 126 Norse surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Tooley come from?: Anglicized form of the Old Norse personal name Þórleifr, which is composed of the elements Þórr (“Thor”) and leifr (“inheritor”) (compare líf). (Note: Tooley Street in London, England, is of Old Norse origin, but is not from Þórleifr. It is a shortening of Sant Ole, meaning Saint Olaf.)
How common is the surname Tooley?: 4,371 people in the United States had the surname Tooley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,635 Americans. It ranked 7,605th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Tooley?: In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Tooley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Tooley getting more or less common?: More common. 4,149 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,371 in 2010, up 5.4%.