Hurley

38,388 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hurley in the 2020 census, making it the 891st most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,786.

By the numbers

People: 38,388
Rank: 891st
How common: 1 in 7,786
Per 100,000: 12.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

From Old English hyrne (“corner”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.6%
Black, not Hispanic 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Hurley

Elizabeth Hurley (born 1965)English actress and model
Chad Hurley (born 1977)American businessman, co-founder of YouTube
Douglas G. Hurley (born 1966)American astronaut
David Hurley (born 1953)Australian general; 27th Governor-General of Australia
Andy Hurley (born 1980)American drummer
Frank Hurley (1885–1962)Australian photographer and adventurer
Marcus Hurley (1883–1941)American racing cyclist
Courtney Hurley (born 1990)American fencer

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

Surnames like Hurley

Also a first name

Hurley has been given to 2,659 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1919. 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.