Corley

Corley is the 2,074th most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,977 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 17,600.

By the numbers

People: 16,977
Rank: 2,074th
How common: 1 in 17,600
Per 100,000: 5.7

Where the name comes from

From Old English *corn (“crane”), genitive plural, *corna + lēah (“woodland clearing”), 'the cranes' wood or clearing'.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.8%
Black, not Hispanic 19.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Corley

Al Corley (born 1956)American actor, singer and producer
Pat Corley (1930–2006)American actor
Annie Corley (born 1952)American actress

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

Surnames like Corley

Also a first name

Corley has been given to 621 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2011. 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.