# Adderley (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/adderley/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,081 |
| US rank (2010) | 23,500 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 285,611 people |
| Change since 2000 | +17% (927 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Adderly |

## Etymology

From the Old English personal name Ealdred + lēah (“woodland clearing”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Adderley in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 19% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 74% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.8% |
| Two or more races | 3.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Adderley in the United States.

## People named Adderley

- Cannonball Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (1928–1975)
- Nat Adderley, American jazz cornet and trumpet player (1931–2000)

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.