The surname Weekley
An English place surname, carried by 4,072 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W240
Origin
English origin
From Old English wīċ (“village, settlement”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to wick + -ley (“lea”).
Weekley 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 4,072 people named Weekley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,822 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,076.
Who is named Weekley
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Weekley identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 89%
- Black (not Hispanic) 6.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Weekley has the Soundex code W240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W240.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Weekley come from?
- From Old English wīċ (“village, settlement”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to wick + -ley (“lea”).
- How common is the surname Weekley?
- 4,072 people in the United States had the surname Weekley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,822 Americans. It ranked 8,139th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Weekley?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Weekley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Weekley?
- Weekley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Weekley getting more or less common?
- Less common. 4,076 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,072 in 2010, down 0.1%.