Plumley

Plumley is the 8,045th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,948 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 75,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,948
Rank: 8,045th
How common: 1 in 75,700
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English plūme (“plum”) + lēah (“woodland; clearing”). Equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like Plumley

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.