The surname Windley
A surname, carried by 1,604 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W534
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,604 people named Windley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 192,485 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,428.
#17,541
rank among US surnames
1,604
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+12.3%
change since 2000 (was #18,016)
Who is named Windley
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
51% of people named Windley identified as Black (not Hispanic), 43% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Black (not Hispanic) 51%
- White (not Hispanic) 43%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
- Two or more races 3.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Windley has the Soundex code W534, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W534.
Questions
- How common is the surname Windley?
- 1,604 people in the United States had the surname Windley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 192,485 Americans. It ranked 17,541st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Windley?
- In the 2010 Census, 51% of people named Windley identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 43% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Windley getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,428 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,604 in 2010, up 12%.