The surname Woosley
A place surname, carried by 4,048 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W240
Origin
Variant of Wolseley.
Woosley is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,048 people named Woosley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 76,271 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,999.
Who is named Woosley
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Woosley identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as two or more races and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Woosley
Woosley has the Soundex code W240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W240.
Questions
- Where does the surname Woosley come from?
- Variant of Wolseley.
- How common is the surname Woosley?
- 4,048 people in the United States had the surname Woosley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 76,271 Americans. It ranked 8,198th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Woosley?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Woosley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as two or more races.
- What type of surname is Woosley?
- Woosley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Woosley getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,999 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,048 in 2010, up 1.2%.