How common is the surname Lumley?

2,976 people in the United States had the surname Lumley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,745 Americans. It ranked 10,729th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Lumley?

Joanna Lumley, British actress and former model, followed by Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough.

Where is the surname Lumley most common?

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

Is the surname Lumley getting more or less common?

More common. 2,901 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,976 in 2010, up 2.6%.

The surname Lumley

An English place surname, carried by 2,976 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L540

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lumley is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

English origin

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

Lumley 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 2,976 people named Lumley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 103,745 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,901.

#10,729

rank among US surnames

2,976

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+2.6%

change since 2000 (was #10,200)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,724	Chidester	2,979	103,641
#10,726	Hennigan	2,978	103,675
#10,728	Spoon	2,977	103,710
#10,729	Lumley	2,976	103,745
#10,731	DeFilippo	2,975	103,780
#10,736	Haman	2,974	103,815

Who is named Lumley

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

91% of people named Lumley identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 2.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Lumleys

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Joanna Lumley
British actress and former model, born 1946
Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough
British Army general (1896-1969)

Notable Lumleys come mostly from the United Kingdom (1) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Lumley

Lemley

Lumley has the Soundex code L540, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L540.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lumley come from?: Habitational surname from the villages of Great Lumley and Lumley Thicks, in County Durham, from Old English lumm (“pool”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
How common is the surname Lumley?: 2,976 people in the United States had the surname Lumley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,745 Americans. It ranked 10,729th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lumley?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Lumley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Lumley?: Joanna Lumley, British actress and former model, followed by Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough.
Where is the surname Lumley most common?: Wikidata records people named Lumley in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
What type of surname is Lumley?: Lumley is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Lumley getting more or less common?: More common. 2,901 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,976 in 2010, up 2.6%.