Lindley

Lindley is the 3,559th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,777 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 30,600.

By the numbers

People: 9,777
Rank: 3,559th
How common: 1 in 30,600
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.8%
Black, not Hispanic 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Lindley

John Lindley (1799–1865)English botanist, gardener, orchidologist, editor, scientific illustrator
Nicolás Lindley López (1908–1995)48th President of Peru
Alfred Lindley (1904–1951)American rower
David Lindley (1944–2023)American musician
Audra Lindley (1918–1997)American actress

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

Surnames like Lindley

Also a first name

Lindley has been given to 1,628 American babies as a first name since 1895, peaking in 1988. 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.