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    The surname Wortley

    An English place surname, carried by 489 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W634

    Wortley: #44,034 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Wortley #44,034, 489 people Wortley: #44,034 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Wortley #44,034, 489 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wortley is more common than 72.9% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English wyrt (“plant, vegetable”) + lēah (“wood clearing, glade”). Equivalent to wort + -ley (“lea”).

    Wortley 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 489 people named Wortley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 631,381 Americans. That is down 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 504.

    #44,034
    rank among US surnames
    489
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3%
    change since 2000 (was #40,833)

    Who is named Wortley

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

    96% of people named Wortley identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    Wortley has the Soundex code W634, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W634.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Wortley come from?
    From Old English wyrt (“plant, vegetable”) + lēah (“wood clearing, glade”). Equivalent to wort + -ley (“lea”).
    How common is the surname Wortley?
    489 people in the United States had the surname Wortley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 631,381 Americans. It ranked 44,034th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wortley?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Wortley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Wortley?
    Wortley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Wortley getting more or less common?
    Less common. 504 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 489 in 2010, down 3.0%.
    What are other spellings of Wortley?
    Worley.