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    The surname Willsey

    A surname, carried by 1,237 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W420

    Willsey: #21,218 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Willsey #21,218, 1,237 people Willsey: #21,218 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Willsey #21,218, 1,237 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Willsey is more common than 86.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,237 people named Willsey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 249,592 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,236.

    #21,218
    rank among US surnames
    1,237
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.1%
    change since 2000 (was #20,072)

    Who is named Willsey

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

    94% of people named Willsey identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Willsey

    Willsey 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 Willsey?
    1,237 people in the United States had the surname Willsey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 249,592 Americans. It ranked 21,218th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Willsey?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Willsey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Willsey getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,236 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,237 in 2010, up 0.1%.