The surname Townsley
A surname, carried by 2,753 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T524
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,753 people named Townsley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 112,149 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,643.
#11,440
rank among US surnames
2,753
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+4.2%
change since 2000 (was #11,035)
Who is named Townsley
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Townsley identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Townsley has the Soundex code T524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T524.
Questions
- How common is the surname Townsley?
- 2,753 people in the United States had the surname Townsley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 112,149 Americans. It ranked 11,440th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Townsley?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Townsley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Townsley getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,643 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,753 in 2010, up 4.2%.