Last Name WORTLEY

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Local: Of Wortley, two villages, near Leeds and Sheffield.
Origin English, Jewish, Irish

Rank 40,833 (2000 US census) 36,466 (1990 US census)
Count 504 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.64%, or 477 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 2.78%, or 14 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.59%, or 8 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

American Surnames

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Shortest baby names

We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

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