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The WINKLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 632 33993 0 2
United States (1880 census) 335 13130 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +297 -20863 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 101 14203 0.001 6
United Kingdom 0 0
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of WINKLEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the WINKLEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of WINKLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 548 86.71
Black/African American 61 9.65
White (Hispanic) 14 2.22
Mixed Race 7 1.11
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the WINKLEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

WINKLEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of WINKLEY in historical publications

WINKLEY. AAaNCKLEY. There is a parish so called in Devonshire, but the family appear to have originated at AVinckley Hall, an estate in the township of Aighton, parish of Mitton, co. Lancaster. In the Coucher-Book of the neighbouring abbey of AVhalley, the name of Robert de AVynkedelegh occurs in 4. Edward I., and the family continued to reside at AA'inckley until the XVII. century. The name appears in Lincolnshire about the middle of the XA''I. century, and there is a tradition that the AVinkleys of that county are descended from one of the Lancashire house, who, during some civil or religious commotion, narrowly escaped with his life, and took refuge there. The name has been variously written De AA'ynkedelegh, AVynkley, AViuckley, and AAinkley. With regard to the first orthography, it is curious to observe that, in the Coucher-Book referred to, the apparently unnecessary middle syllable de occurs m several local surnames. For instance Dinckley is written De Dynkedelegh, and what is now AVorsley, De AA'orkedelegh. AVhether this syllable belongs etymologically to the names, or is a caprice of the scribe, I know not.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to WINKLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as WINKLEY.

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Potential typos for WINKLEY

The following words are slight variants of WINKLEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.