The surname Woolfolk
A surname, carried by 3,295 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W414
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,295 people named Woolfolk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 93,701 Americans. That is up 6.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,081.
#9,827
rank among US surnames
3,295
people in 2010
1.1
per 100,000 Americans
+6.9%
change since 2000 (was #9,675)
Who is named Woolfolk
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
64% of people named Woolfolk identified as Black (not Hispanic), 25% as white (not Hispanic) and 5.3% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 64%
- White (not Hispanic) 25%
- Two or more races 5.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Woolfolk
Woolfolk has the Soundex code W414, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W414.
Questions
- How common is the surname Woolfolk?
- 3,295 people in the United States had the surname Woolfolk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 93,701 Americans. It ranked 9,827th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Woolfolk?
- In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Woolfolk identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 25% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Woolfolk getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,081 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,295 in 2010, up 6.9%.