Dailey

Dailey is the 1,102nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 31,350 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,534.

By the numbers

People: 31,350
Rank: 1,102nd
How common: 1 in 9,534
Per 100,000: 10.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Variant of Daly.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.5%
Black, not Hispanic 16.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Dailey

Dan Dailey (1915–1978)American actor, singer and dancer
Janet Dailey (1944–2013)American writer
Irene Dailey (1920–2008)American actress
Quintin Dailey (1961–2010)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Dailey

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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.