Marley
Marley is the 5,637th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,933 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 50,400.
By the numbers
- People
- 5,933
- Rank
- 5,637th
- How common
- 1 in 50,400
- Per 100,000
- 2.0
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
From several different places in England, from Old English mære (“boundary”) or myrig (“pleasant”) or mearþ (“marten”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”). In the first case, equivalent.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Marley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Marley
- Bob Marley (1945–1981)Jamaican reggae musician
- Damian Marley (born 1978)Jamaican DJ, singer and rapper
- Ziggy Marley (born 1968)Jamaican reggae musician
- Rita Marley (born 1946)Jamaican musician
- John Marley (1907–1984)American actor
- Stephen Marley (born 1972)Jamaican American reggae musician
- Julian Marley (born 1975)English musician
- Ky-Mani Marley (born 1976)Jamaican reggae musician
People named Marley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Marley
Also a first name
Marley has been given to 38,404 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2008. 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.