# Gresley (surname)

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

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 130 |
| US rank (2010) | 130,610 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 2,374,966 people |
| Change since 2000 | -7.8% (141 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from Church Gresley or Castle Gresley, two villages in Derbyshire, from Old English greōsn (“gravel”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Gresley 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) | 98% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.0% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Gresley in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Gresley

- Nigel Gresley, British engineer (1876–1941)
- Frank Gresley, British artist (1855-1936)

## Similar surnames

Griswold, Grijalva, Grizzle, Garcialopez, Grajales, Gargiulo, Garcilazo.

## 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.