Buckley
40,231 people in the United States were counted with the surname Buckley in the 2020 census, making it the 840th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,430.
By the numbers
- People
- 40,231
- Rank
- 840th
- How common
- 1 in 7,430
- Per 100,000
- 13.5
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
From Old English bucca (“he-goat”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Buckley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Buckley
- Jessie Buckley (born 1989)Irish actress, singer and songwriter
- Jeff Buckley (1966–1997)American musician
- William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008)American public intellectual, conservative author and political commentator
- Betty Buckley (born 1947)American actress and singer
- Robert Buckley (born 1981)American actor
- Timothy Buckley (1947–1975)American musician
- Andy Buckley (born 1965)American actor
- Delron Buckley (born 1977)South African footballer
People named Buckley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Buckley
Also a first name
Buckley has been given to 1,084 American babies as a first name since 1916, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
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.