Gurney

At the 2020 census, 4,319 Americans bore the surname Gurney — 7,442nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 69,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,319
Rank: 7,442nd
How common: 1 in 69,200
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

English surname of Norman origin, from Gournay-en-Bray in Seine-Maritime, France. Sometimes also from Great Gornhay in Tiverton, Devon, for which see Garnsey.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Gurney

Dan Gurney (1931–2018)American racing driver, constructor and team owner
Ivor Gurney (1890–1937)British composer and poet
James Gurney (born 1958)American writer and artist
John Henry Gurney Sr. (1819–1890)English banker, politician, and amateur ornithologist
Chan Gurney (1896–1985)American politician

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

Surnames like Gurney

Also a first name

Gurney has been given to 790 American babies as a first name since 1890, peaking in 1928. 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.