Dudley
34,312 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dudley in the 2020 census, making it the 999th most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,711.
By the numbers
- People
- 34,312
- Rank
- 999th
- How common
- 1 in 8,711
- Per 100,000
- 11.5
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
From Old English, literally "wood or clearing of Dudda (a personal name of unknown meaning)".
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Dudley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Dudley
- Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–1588)English nobleman and the favourite and close friend of Queen Elizabeth I
- John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504–1553)English general, admiral, and politician
- Anne Dudley (born 1956)English composer and pop musician
- Jared Dudley (born 1985)American basketball player
- Lord Guildford Dudley (1535–1554)English royal consort
- Olivia Dudley (born 1985)American actress
- Anne Dallas Dudley (1876–1955)American women's suffrage activist
- Robert Dudley (1574–1649)English engineer, explorer, cartographer
People named Dudley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Dudley
Also a first name
Dudley has been given to 11,988 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1931. 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.