Hanley

17,920 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hanley in the 2020 census, making it the 1,968th most common in the country. That is about one person in 16,700.

By the numbers

People: 17,920
Rank: 1,968th
How common: 1 in 16,700
Per 100,000: 6.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English hēan, weak dative case of hēah (“high”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Compare Henley, which shares the same etymology.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.8%
Black, not Hispanic 6.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Hanley

Grant Hanley (born 1991)Scottish association football player
Paul Hanley (born 1977)Australian tennis player
Ben Hanley (born 1985)British racing driver

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

Surnames like Hanley

Also a first name

Hanley has been given to 943 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2013. 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.