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    The surname Winkley

    An English place surname, carried by 528 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W524

    Winkley: #41,234 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Winkley #41,234, 528 people Winkley: #41,234 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Winkley #41,234, 528 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Winkley is more common than 74.6% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from a lost settlement in Lancashire, from an unclear first element + Old English lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). The surname could also derive from the village of Winksley, in North Yorkshire.

    Winkley is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 528 people named Winkley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 584,745 Americans. That is down 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 632.

    #41,234
    rank among US surnames
    528
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -16.5%
    change since 2000 (was #33,993)

    Who is named Winkley

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

    84% of people named Winkley identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    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 Winkley

    Winkley has the Soundex code W524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W524.

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Winkley come from?
    Habitational surname from a lost settlement in Lancashire, from an unclear first element + Old English lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). The surname could also derive from the village of Winksley, in North Yorkshire.
    How common is the surname Winkley?
    528 people in the United States had the surname Winkley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 584,745 Americans. It ranked 41,234th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Winkley?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Winkley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Winkley?
    Winkley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Winkley getting more or less common?
    Less common. 632 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 528 in 2010, down 17%.