Dilley

At the 2020 census, 5,339 Americans bore the surname Dilley — 6,152nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 56,000.

By the numbers

People: 5,339
Rank: 6,152nd
How common: 1 in 56,000
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Possibly a pet form of an unrecorded Old English personal name *Dylla, found in placenames such as Dillington or Dilton.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Dilley

Gary Dilley (born 1945)American swimmer

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

Surnames like Dilley

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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.