Greenlee

Greenlee is the 4,141st most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,306 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 36,000.

By the numbers

People: 8,306
Rank: 4,141st
How common: 1 in 36,000
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from several minor places in England, named from Old English grēne (“green”) + lēah (“clearing, glade”). Equivalent; compare Green and Greene.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.2%
Black, not Hispanic 17.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Surnames like Greenlee

Also a first name

Greenlee has been given to 842 American babies as a first name since 2001, peaking in 2010. 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.