Hadley

At the 2020 census, 21,312 Americans bore the surname Hadley — 1,640th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,000.

By the numbers

People: 21,312
Rank: 1,640th
How common: 1 in 14,000
Per 100,000: 7.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English hǣþ (“heath”) + Old English leah (“woodland clearing”). Equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.5%
Black, not Hispanic 14.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.7%

Notable people called Hadley

John Hadley (1682–1744)English mathematician and astronomer;
George Hadley (1685–1768)British lawyer and meteorologist
Stephen Hadley (born 1947)American attorney and senior government official
Tony Hadley (born 1960)English pop singer
Reed Hadley (1911–1974)American actor
Henry Kimball Hadley (1871–1937)American composer

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

Surnames like Hadley

Also a first name

Hadley has been given to 48,691 American babies as a first name since 1906, peaking in 2014. 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.