Haley

At the 2020 census, 35,805 Americans bore the surname Haley — 962nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,348.

By the numbers

People: 35,805
Rank: 962nd
How common: 1 in 8,348
Per 100,000: 12.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Variant of Hayley, from Old English.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.3%
Black, not Hispanic 13.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Haley

Nikki Haley (born 1972)American politician and diplomat
Bill Haley (1925–1981)American rock and roll music pioneer
Alex Haley (1921–1992)American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
Jackie Earle Haley (born 1961)American actor
Jack Haley (1897–1979)American stage, radio and film actor
Haley Paige (1981–2007)American pornographic actress
Jay Haley (1923–2007)American psychotherapist
Jack Haley (1964–2015)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Haley

Also a first name

Haley has been given to 160,347 American babies as a first name since 1890, peaking in 2000. 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.