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    The surname Whorley

    A surname, carried by 1,120 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W640

    Whorley: #22,856 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Whorley #22,856, 1,120 people Whorley: #22,856 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Whorley #22,856, 1,120 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Whorley is more common than 85.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,120 people named Whorley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 275,666 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,082.

    #22,856
    rank among US surnames
    1,120
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.5%
    change since 2000 (was #22,240)

    Who is named Whorley

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

    78% of people named Whorley identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 78%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 19%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Whorley

    Whorley has the Soundex code W640, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W640.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Whorley?
    1,120 people in the United States had the surname Whorley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 275,666 Americans. It ranked 22,856th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Whorley?
    In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Whorley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Whorley getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,082 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,120 in 2010, up 3.5%.