Curley

11,610 people in the United States were counted with the surname Curley in the 2020 census, making it the 3,027th most common in the country. That is about one person in 25,700.

By the numbers

People: 11,610
Rank: 3,027th
How common: 1 in 25,700
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced form of McCurley.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 15.7%
Black, not Hispanic 7.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Curley

Pauline Curley (1903–2000)vaudeville and silent film actress from Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States
James Michael Curley (1874–1958)American politician
Marianne Curley (born 1959)Australian writer

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

Surnames like Curley

Also a first name

Curley has been given to 3,124 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1944. 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.