Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Hunley

    A surname, carried by 4,556 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H540

    Hunley: #7,323 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hunley #7,323, 4,556 people Hunley: #7,323 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hunley #7,323, 4,556 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hunley is more common than 95.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,556 people named Hunley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 67,767 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,478.

    #7,323
    rank among US surnames
    4,556
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.7%
    change since 2000 (was #6,910)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,319Raby4,55967,722
    #7,320Blades4,55867,737
    #7,322Cyrus4,55767,752
    #7,323Hunley4,55667,767

    Who is named Hunley

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

    79% of people named Hunley identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Hunleys

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Leann Hunley
      American television actress (born 1955)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Hunley

    Hunley has the Soundex code H540, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H540.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hunley?
    4,556 people in the United States had the surname Hunley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,767 Americans. It ranked 7,323rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hunley?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Hunley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Hunley?
    Leann Hunley, American television actress (born 1955).
    Where is the surname Hunley most common?
    Wikidata records people named Hunley in the United States.
    Is the surname Hunley getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,478 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,556 in 2010, up 1.7%.