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    The surname Danley

    A surname, carried by 4,420 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D540

    Danley: #7,528 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Danley #7,528, 4,420 people Danley: #7,528 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Danley #7,528, 4,420 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Danley is more common than 95.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,420 people named Danley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 69,852 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,232.

    #7,528
    rank among US surnames
    4,420
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.4%
    change since 2000 (was #7,267)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,520Pell4,42469,789
    #7,524Judson4,42269,820
    #7,525Huck4,42169,836
    #7,528Danley4,42069,852
    #7,530Caudillo4,41869,884
    #7,531Almendarez4,41569,931

    Who is named Danley

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    84% of people named Danley identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Danley

    Danley has the Soundex code D540, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D540.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Danley?
    4,420 people in the United States had the surname Danley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,852 Americans. It ranked 7,528th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Danley?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Danley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Danley getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,232 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,420 in 2010, up 4.4%.