Woodley

6,715 people in the United States were counted with the surname Woodley in the 2020 census, making it the 5,061st most common in the country. That is about one person in 44,500.

By the numbers

People: 6,715
Rank: 5,061st
How common: 1 in 44,500
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English wudu (“wood”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Woodley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 45.9%
White, not Hispanic 45.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Woodley

Shailene Woodley (born 1991)American actress
Tyron Woodley (born 1982)American mixed martial artist
Erin Woodley (born 1972)Canadian synchronized swimmer

People named Woodley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Woodley

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.