Alley

13,032 people in the United States were counted with the surname Alley in the 2020 census, making it the 2,700th most common in the country. That is about one person in 22,900.

By the numbers

People: 13,032
Rank: 2,700th
How common: 1 in 22,900
Per 100,000: 4.4

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Alley

Kirstie Alley (1951–2022)American actress
Alphonse Alley (1930–1987)Beninese army officer and politician
Richard B. Alley (born 1957)American geologist, author, and academic

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

Surnames like Alley

Also a first name

Alley has been given to 1,120 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2006. 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.