Halley

Halley is the 7,171st most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,495 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 66,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,495
Rank: 7,171st
How common: 1 in 66,500
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.0%
Black, not Hispanic 16.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Halley

Edmond Halley (1656–1742)English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist

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

Surnames like Halley

Also a first name

Halley has been given to 4,238 American babies as a first name since 1910, peaking in 1986. 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.