# Hartley (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/hartley/  
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) | 31,221 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,124 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 9,889 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.3% (30,236 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈhɑɹtli/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | Artley |

## Etymology

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

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hartley 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) | 89% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 6.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Hartley in the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, France and the United Kingdom.

## People named Hartley

- Justin Hartley, American actor (born 1977)
- Marsden Hartley, American artist (1877–1943)
- Mariette Hartley, American actress (born 1940)
- Hal Hartley, American film director and screenwriter (born 1959)
- Wallace Hartley, band leader on the RMS Titanic (1878–1912)
- Ralph Hartley, American electronics researcher and information theorist (1888–1970)
- Nate Hartley, American actor
- Lindsay Hartley, American actress, director, and screenwriter
- Bria Hartley, American basketball player
- Jo Hartley, British actress
- Margaret Hartley, British artistic gymnast (1906-1964)
- Ted Hartley, American actor

and 4 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Hartle, Hartl, Hartwell, Hartline, Hartland, Hertel, Hurdle.

## 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.