How common is the surname Longley?

3,204 people in the United States had the surname Longley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,363 Americans. It ranked 10,059th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Longley?

Luc Longley, Australian basketball player and coach, followed by Bernard Longley.

Where is the surname Longley most common?

Wikidata records people named Longley in Australia, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Great Britain and 1 other country.

How do you pronounce Longley?

Longley is /ˈlɒŋli/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Longley getting more or less common?

More common. 3,148 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,204 in 2010, up 1.8%.

The surname Longley

A surname, carried by 3,204 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈlɒŋli/ 2 syllables Soundex L524

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Longley is more common than 93.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,204 people named Longley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,363 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,148.

#10,059

rank among US surnames

3,204

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+1.8%

change since 2000 (was #9,474)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,050	Dasher	3,205	96,332
#10,059	Wesolowski	3,204	96,363
#10,064	O'Brian	3,203	96,393
#10,068	Creager	3,202	96,423

Who is named Longley

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

89% of people named Longley identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Black (not Hispanic) 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Longleys

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Luc Longley
Australian basketball player and coach, born 1969
Bernard Longley
British catholic archbishop, born 1955
Charles Longley
Archbishop of Canterbury; Archbishop of York; Bishop of Durham; Bishop of Ripon (1794-1868
Victoria Longley
Actress (1960-2010)
James B. Longley
American politician (1924–1980)

Notable Longleys come mostly from Australia (2), the United Kingdom (1) and the Kingdom of Great Britain (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Longley

Longley has the Soundex code L524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L524.

Questions

How common is the surname Longley?: 3,204 people in the United States had the surname Longley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,363 Americans. It ranked 10,059th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Longley?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Longley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Longley?: Luc Longley, Australian basketball player and coach, followed by Bernard Longley.
Where is the surname Longley most common?: Wikidata records people named Longley in Australia, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Great Britain and 1 other country.
How do you pronounce Longley?: Longley is /ˈlɒŋli/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Longley getting more or less common?: More common. 3,148 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,204 in 2010, up 1.8%.