Langley

26,134 people in the United States were counted with the surname Langley in the 2020 census, making it the 1,320th most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,400.

By the numbers

People: 26,134
Rank: 1,320th
How common: 1 in 11,400
Per 100,000: 8.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English lang (“long”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.3%
Black, not Hispanic 10.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Langley

Samuel Langley (1834–1906)American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian
Ella Langley (born 1999)American country singer
John Newport Langley (1852–1925)British physiologist

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

Surnames like Langley

Also a first name

Langley has been given to 833 American babies as a first name since 1907, peaking in 2015. 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.