The surname Worthey
A surname, carried by 1,698 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex W630
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,698 people named Worthey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 181,829 Americans. That is down 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,713.
#16,809
rank among US surnames
1,698
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
-0.9%
change since 2000 (was #15,661)
Who is named Worthey
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
70% of people named Worthey identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 70%
- Black (not Hispanic) 23%
- Two or more races 2.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Worthey has the Soundex code W630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W630.
Questions
- How common is the surname Worthey?
- 1,698 people in the United States had the surname Worthey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 181,829 Americans. It ranked 16,809th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Worthey?
- In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Worthey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Worthey getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,713 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,698 in 2010, down 0.9%.