Burley

At the 2020 census, 8,075 Americans bore the surname Burley — 4,247th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 37,000.

By the numbers

People: 8,075
Rank: 4,247th
How common: 1 in 37,000
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

From Old English burh (“burg”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.7%
Black, not Hispanic 31.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Burley

Craig Burley (born 1971)Scottish association football player
George Burley (born 1956)Scottish association football manager
Walter Burley (1275–1344)14th century English scholastic philosopher and logician

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

Surnames like Burley

Also a first name

Burley has been given to 2,350 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. 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.