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    The surname Whatley

    An English place surname, carried by 11,579 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W340

    Whatley: #3,109 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Whatley #3,109, 11,579 people Whatley: #3,109 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Whatley #3,109, 11,579 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whatley is more common than 98.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English hwǣte (“wheat”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to wheat + -ley (“lea”). Identical to Wheatley.

    Whatley 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 11,579 people named Whatley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 26,664 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,039.

    #3,109
    rank among US surnames
    11,579
    people in 2010
    3.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.9%
    change since 2000 (was #3,008)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,100Benner11,61226,588
    #3,101Scanlon11,61026,593
    #3,102Nolasco11,60926,595
    #3,104Wallis11,59426,630
    #3,105Jacobo11,59026,639
    #3,106Branson11,58726,646
    #3,107Simpkins11,58526,650

    Who is named Whatley

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

    69% of people named Whatley identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 23%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.5%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • 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 Whatley

    Whatley 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 Whatley come from?
    From Old English hwǣte (“wheat”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to wheat + -ley (“lea”). Identical to Wheatley.
    How common is the surname Whatley?
    11,579 people in the United States had the surname Whatley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 26,664 Americans. It ranked 3,109th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whatley?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Whatley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Whatley?
    Whatley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Whatley getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,039 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,579 in 2010, up 4.9%.