The surname Hatley
An English place surname, carried by 6,468 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H340
Origin
English origin
From the Old English hætt + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
Hatley 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 6,468 people named Hatley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 47,734 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,151.
Who is named Hatley
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
84% of people named Hatley identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 84%
- Black (not Hispanic) 10%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Hatley has the Soundex code H340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H340.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Hatley come from?
- From the Old English hætt + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
- How common is the surname Hatley?
- 6,468 people in the United States had the surname Hatley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,734 Americans. It ranked 5,379th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hatley?
- In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Hatley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Hatley?
- Hatley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Hatley getting more or less common?
- More common. 6,151 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,468 in 2010, up 5.2%.