Copley

Copley is the 5,296th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,354 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 47,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,354
Rank: 5,296th
How common: 1 in 47,000
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English copp (“hilltop”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Copley

Sharlto Copley (born 1973)South African producer, actor, and director
John Singleton Copley (1738–1815)American painter
Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet (1653–1709)British landowner and MP.
Paul Copley (born 1944)British actor

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

Surnames like Copley

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.