Lumley

At the 2020 census, 2,781 Americans bore the surname Lumley — 10,936th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 107,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,781
Rank: 10,936th
How common: 1 in 107,000
Per 100,000: 0.93

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Habitational surname from the villages of Great Lumley and Lumley Thicks, in County Durham, from Old English lumm (“pool”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Black, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Lumley

Joanna Lumley (born 1946)British actress and former model
Brian Lumley (1937–2024)English horror fiction writer

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

Surnames like Lumley

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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.