Henley

Henley is the 1,744th most common surname in the United States, shared by 20,025 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,900.

By the numbers

People: 20,025
Rank: 1,744th
How common: 1 in 14,900
Per 100,000: 6.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.5%
Black, not Hispanic 24.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Henley

Georgie Henley (born 1995)English actress
Don Henley (born 1947)American rock musician
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)English poet, critic and editor
Barry Shabaka Henley (born 1954)American actor
Hobart Henley (1887–1964)American actor and film director
Adam Henley (born 1994)Welsh footballer
Ernest Henley (1889–1962)British sprinter
Beth Henley (born 1952)American writer and actor b. 1952

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

Surnames like Henley

Also a first name

Henley has been given to 8,272 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2016. 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.