# Lumley (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/lumley/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A 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) | 2,976 |
| US rank (2010) | 10,729 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 103,745 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.6% (2,901 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from the villages of Great Lumley and Lumley Thicks, in County Durham, from Old English lumm (“pool”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lumley 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) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Lumley in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Lumley

- Joanna Lumley, British actress and former model
- Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough, British Army general (1896-1969)

## Similar surnames

Lemley, Lomeli, Linnell.

## 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.