The surname Wormley
An English place surname, carried by 1,243 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W654
Origin
English origin
From Old English wyrm (“snake”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to worm or wyrm + -ley (“lea”).
Wormley 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 1,243 people named Wormley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 248,387 Americans. That is down 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,266.
Who is named Wormley
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
67% of people named Wormley identified as Black (not Hispanic), 26% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.0% as two or more races.
- Black (not Hispanic) 67%
- White (not Hispanic) 26%
- Two or more races 4.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Wormeley
- Wormely
Wormley has the Soundex code W654, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W654.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Wormley come from?
- From Old English wyrm (“snake”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to worm or wyrm + -ley (“lea”).
- How common is the surname Wormley?
- 1,243 people in the United States had the surname Wormley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 248,387 Americans. It ranked 21,119th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Wormley?
- In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Wormley identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 26% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Wormley?
- Wormley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Wormley getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,266 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,243 in 2010, down 1.8%.
- What are other spellings of Wormley?
- Wormeley and Wormely.