Shanley

Shanley is the 7,908th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,027 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 74,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,027
Rank: 7,908th
How common: 1 in 74,200
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Seanlaoich (“son of Seanlaoch”), a personal name composed of the elements sean (“old”) + laoch (“hero, champion”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Shanley

John Patrick Shanley (born 1950)American writer

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

Surnames like Shanley

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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.