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    The surname Wilkey

    A surname, carried by 4,183 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W420

    Wilkey: #7,909 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Wilkey #7,909, 4,183 people Wilkey: #7,909 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Wilkey #7,909, 4,183 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wilkey is more common than 95.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,183 people named Wilkey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 73,810 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,797.

    #7,909
    rank among US surnames
    4,183
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.2%
    change since 2000 (was #8,053)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,900Waldon4,19073,686
    #7,903Sikorski4,18973,704
    #7,904Sutphin4,18873,721
    #7,905Huntsman4,18773,739
    #7,906McAuley4,18673,757
    #7,907Pegram4,18573,774
    #7,908Niemann4,18473,792

    Who is named Wilkey

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

    92% of people named Wilkey identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Wilkey

    Wilkey has the Soundex code W420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Wilkey?
    4,183 people in the United States had the surname Wilkey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,810 Americans. It ranked 7,909th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wilkey?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Wilkey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Wilkey getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,797 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,183 in 2010, up 10%.
    What are other spellings of Wilkey?
    Wilk, Wilke, Wilkie, Wilks and Wilkes.