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    The surname Whiteley

    A surname, carried by 4,834 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W340

    Whiteley: #6,935 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Whiteley #6,935, 4,834 people Whiteley: #6,935 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Whiteley #6,935, 4,834 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whiteley is more common than 95.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,834 people named Whiteley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 63,870 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,647.

    #6,935
    rank among US surnames
    4,834
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4%
    change since 2000 (was #6,707)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,930Fordham4,83863,817
    #6,932Arguelles4,83763,830
    #6,933Holler4,83663,843
    #6,935Whiteley4,83463,870
    #6,936Rubenstein4,83363,883

    Who is named Whiteley

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

    91% of people named Whiteley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as two or more races and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Two or more races 2.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Whiteleys

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Jon Whiteley
      British actor and art historian (1945-2020)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Whiteley

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Whiteley?
    4,834 people in the United States had the surname Whiteley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,870 Americans. It ranked 6,935th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whiteley?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Whiteley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as two or more races.
    Who is the most famous person named Whiteley?
    Jon Whiteley, British actor and art historian (1945-2020).
    Where is the surname Whiteley most common?
    Wikidata records people named Whiteley in the United Kingdom.
    Is the surname Whiteley getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,647 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,834 in 2010, up 4.0%.