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    The surname Yearsley

    An English place surname, carried by 713 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex Y624

    Yearsley: #32,302 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Yearsley #32,302, 713 people Yearsley: #32,302 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Yearsley #32,302, 713 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yearsley is more common than 80.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Old English personal name *Eofor, a byname from eofor (“wild boar”), + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

    Yearsley 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 713 people named Yearsley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 433,023 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 631.

    #32,302
    rank among US surnames
    713
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13%
    change since 2000 (was #34,038)

    Who is named Yearsley

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

    95% of people named Yearsley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Yearsley come from?
    From the Old English personal name *Eofor, a byname from eofor (“wild boar”), + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
    How common is the surname Yearsley?
    713 people in the United States had the surname Yearsley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 433,023 Americans. It ranked 32,302nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Yearsley?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Yearsley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Yearsley?
    Yearsley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Yearsley getting more or less common?
    More common. 631 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 713 in 2010, up 13%.