Dooley

Dooley is the 1,537th most common surname in the United States, shared by 22,735 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,100.

By the numbers

People: 22,735
Rank: 1,537th
How common: 1 in 13,100
Per 100,000: 7.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubhlaoich (“descendant of Dubhlaoch”), a personal name composed by the elements dubh (“black”) + laoch (“hero”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.9%
Black, not Hispanic 7.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Dooley

Paul Dooley (born 1928)American actor, writer, and comedian
Thomas Dooley (born 1961)German-American soccer player and manager
Taylor Dooley (born 1993)American actress

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

Surnames like Dooley

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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.