Manley

At the 2020 census, 23,615 Americans bore the surname Manley — 1,472nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,700.

By the numbers

People: 23,615
Rank: 1,472nd
How common: 1 in 12,700
Per 100,000: 7.9

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from Old English mæne (“common, shared”) + lēah (“woodland”). Equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.5%
Black, not Hispanic 14.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Manley

Alexandra Manley, Countess of Frederiksborg (born 1964)ex-wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark
Michael Manley (1924–1997)4th Prime Minister of Jamaica
Dorothy Manley (1927–2021)British athlete
Norman Manley (1893–1969)Chief Minister of Jamaica
Elizabeth Manley (born 1965)figure skater
Delarivier Manley (1663–1724)English writer, editor
John H. Manley (1907–1990)American physicist, group leader during the Manhattan Project

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

Surnames like Manley

Also a first name

Manley has been given to 2,251 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1927. 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.