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    The surname Wadley

    An English place surname, carried by 3,968 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W340

    Wadley: #8,342 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wadley #8,342, 3,968 people Wadley: #8,342 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wadley #8,342, 3,968 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wadley is more common than 94.9% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From either the Old English personal name Wada or wād (“woad”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

    Wadley 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 3,968 people named Wadley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 77,809 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,598.

    #8,342
    rank among US surnames
    3,968
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.3%
    change since 2000 (was #8,437)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,337Grainger3,97277,730
    #8,339Densmore3,97177,750
    #8,341Eskridge3,96977,789
    #8,342Wadley3,96877,809
    #8,345Graybill3,96777,828

    Who is named Wadley

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

    54% of people named Wadley identified as white (not Hispanic), 39% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 54%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 39%
    • Two or more races 2.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Wadley

    Wadley has the Soundex code W340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W340.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Wadley come from?
    From either the Old English personal name Wada or wād (“woad”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
    How common is the surname Wadley?
    3,968 people in the United States had the surname Wadley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,809 Americans. It ranked 8,342nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wadley?
    In the 2010 Census, 54% of people named Wadley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 39% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Wadley?
    Wadley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Wadley getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,598 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,968 in 2010, up 10%.