Daley

Daley is the 1,414th most common surname in the United States, shared by 24,507 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 12,200.

By the numbers

People: 24,507
Rank: 1,414th
How common: 1 in 12,200
Per 100,000: 8.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Irish Ó Dálaigh.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.6%
Black, not Hispanic 19.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Daley

Tom Daley (born 1994)British diver
John Francis Daley (born 1985)American actor and director
William M. Daley (born 1948)American lawyer and former banker
Richard M. Daley (born 1942)American politician
Tony Daley (born 1967)English footballer
Richard J. Daley (1902–1976)American politician and 48th Mayor of Chicago
Trevor Daley (born 1983)Canadian ice hockey player

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

Surnames like Daley

Also a first name

Daley has been given to 624 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2002. 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.