Polley

At the 2020 census, 4,527 Americans bore the surname Polley — 7,117th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 66,000.

By the numbers

People: 4,527
Rank: 7,117th
How common: 1 in 66,000
Per 100,000: 1.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.6%
Black, not Hispanic 7.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Polley

Sarah Polley (born 1979)Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter
Eugene Polley (1915–2012)Engineer, inventor of remote control, 1915-2012

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

Surnames like Polley

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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.