Wooley

Wooley is the 5,854th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,687 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 52,600.

By the numbers

People: 5,687
Rank: 5,854th
How common: 1 in 52,600
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Heterographic variant of Woolley.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.6%
Black, not Hispanic 13.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Wooley

Sheb Wooley (1921–2003)American musician and actor

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

Surnames like Wooley

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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.