# Hammersley (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/hammersley/  
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 | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,026 |
| US rank (2010) | 24,404 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 300,922 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.2% (985 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Hamersley |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from a lost place believed to have been in Staffordshire, perhaps from an Old English personal name *Hamela + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hammersley 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) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 2.5% |

## Similar surnames

Hammers, Hammerschmidt, Henriquez, Hamrick, Heinrich, Hinrichs, Henriques, Henriksen, Henrich, Henrickson, Henrichs, Heinrichs.

## 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.