Olney

At the 2020 census, 3,127 Americans bore the surname Olney — 9,868th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 95,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,127
Rank: 9,868th
How common: 1 in 95,600
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the dative form of the Old English personal name *Olla + īeġ (“island”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Olney

Richard Olney (1835–1917)American politician and statesman

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

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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.