How common is the surname Hartley?

31,221 people in the United States had the surname Hartley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 9,889 Americans. It ranked 1,124th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Hartley?

Justin Hartley, American actor (born 1977), followed by Marsden Hartley.

Where is the surname Hartley most common?

Wikidata records people named Hartley in the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and France and 1 other country.

How do you pronounce Hartley?

Hartley is /ˈhɑɹtli/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Hartley getting more or less common?

More common. 30,236 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 31,221 in 2010, up 3.3%.

Is Hartley also a first name?

Yes. Hartley is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Hartley

An English place surname, carried by 31,221 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈhɑɹtli/ 2 syllables Soundex H634

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hartley is more common than 99.3% of them.

Origin

English origin

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

Hartley is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 31,221 people named Hartley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 9,889 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 30,236.

#1,124

rank among US surnames

31,221

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+3.3%

change since 2000 (was #1,055)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,115	Britt	31,474	9,810
#1,116	Craft	31,452	9,816
#1,117	Odell	31,349	9,849
#1,118	Daly	31,330	9,855
#1,119	Winter	31,310	9,861
#1,120	Abraham	31,303	9,863
#1,121	Baez	31,298	9,865

Who is named Hartley

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

89% of people named Hartley identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Black (not Hispanic) 6.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Hartleys

16 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

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, born 1992
Lindsay Hartley
American actress, director, and screenwriter, born 1978
Bria Hartley
American basketball player, born 1992
Jo Hartley
British actress, born 1972
Margaret Hartley
British artistic gymnast (1906-1964)
Ted Hartley
American actor, 1924–2025

Notable Hartleys come mostly from the United States (11), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (2) and France (2).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Artley

Surnames that sound like Hartley

Hartley has the Soundex code H634, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H634.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Hartley come from?: From Old English heorot (“hart, stag”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to hart + -ley (“lea”).
How common is the surname Hartley?: 31,221 people in the United States had the surname Hartley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 9,889 Americans. It ranked 1,124th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hartley?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Hartley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Hartley?: Justin Hartley, American actor (born 1977), followed by Marsden Hartley.
Where is the surname Hartley most common?: Wikidata records people named Hartley in the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and France and 1 other country.
How do you pronounce Hartley?: Hartley is /ˈhɑɹtli/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Hartley?: Hartley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Hartley getting more or less common?: More common. 30,236 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 31,221 in 2010, up 3.3%.
What are other spellings of Hartley?: Artley.
Is Hartley also a first name?: Yes. Hartley is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.