Hartley

Hartley is the 1,171st most common surname in the United States, shared by 29,504 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,100.

By the numbers

People: 29,504
Rank: 1,171st
How common: 1 in 10,100
Per 100,000: 9.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English heorot (“hart, stag”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.1%
Black, not Hispanic 6.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Hartley

Nina Hartley (born 1959)American pornographic film actress
David Hartley (1705–1757)British philosopher
Justin Hartley (born 1977)American actor
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943)American artist
L. P. Hartley (1895–1972)British novelist and short story writer
Mariette Hartley (born 1940)American actress
Wallace Hartley (1878–1912)band leader on the RMS Titanic
Hal Hartley (born 1959)American film director and screenwriter

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

Surnames like Hartley

Also a first name

Hartley has been given to 3,827 American babies as a first name since 1892, peaking in 2024. 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.