Stanley

At the 2020 census, 91,375 Americans bore the surname Stanley — 335th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,271.

By the numbers

People: 91,375
Rank: 335th
How common: 1 in 3,271
Per 100,000: 30.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.7%
Black, not Hispanic 14.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904)British journalist and explorer
Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904–1971)American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Paul Stanley (born 1952)American rock musician
Kim Stanley (1925–2001)American actress
Clayton Stanley (born 1978)volleyball player
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby (1841–1908)British politician and Governor General of Canada
Ralph Stanley (1927–2016)American singer and banjo player
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1435–1504)English nobleman and politician

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

Surnames like Stanley

Also a first name

Stanley has been given to 302,862 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1954. 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.