The surname Manley
An English patronymic surname, carried by 25,136 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex M540
Origin
English origin
* As an English surname, from Old English mæne (“common, shared”) + lēah (“woodland”). Equivalent to mean + -ley (“lea”). * Also as an English surname, from the adjective manly (“brave, manly”). * As an Irish surname, anglicized from Ó Máinle (“descendant of Máinle”); see Malley. * Also as an Irish surname, from Ó Maonghaile (“descendant of Maonghal”), from maoin (“wealth”) + gal (“valor, fury”).
Manley is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
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 25,136 people named Manley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 12,283 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 25,159.
Who is named Manley
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
79% of people named Manley identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 79%
- Black (not Hispanic) 15%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Famous Manleys
6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Michael Manley4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (1924–1997)
- Dorothy ManleyBritish athlete (1927–2021)
- John H. ManleyAmerican physicist, group leader during the Manhattan Project (1907–1990)
- Dexter ManleyAmerican football player, born 1958
- Michael ManleyBritish businessman and former CEO of FCA (born 1964)
- Emma Catherine EmburyAmerican author, poet and botanist (1806 - 1863)
Notable Manleys come mostly from the United States (3), the United Kingdom (2) and Jamaica (1).
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Manley has the Soundex code M540, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M540.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Manley come from?
- * As an English surname, from Old English mæne (“common, shared”) + lēah (“woodland”). Equivalent to mean + -ley (“lea”). * Also as an English surname, from the adjective manly (“brave, manly”). * As an Irish surname, anglicized from Ó Máinle (“descendant of Máinle”); see Malley. * Also as an…
- How common is the surname Manley?
- 25,136 people in the United States had the surname Manley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,283 Americans. It ranked 1,413th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Manley?
- In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Manley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Who is the most famous person named Manley?
- Michael Manley, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (1924–1997), followed by Dorothy Manley.
- Where is the surname Manley most common?
- Wikidata records people named Manley in the United States, the United Kingdom and Jamaica.
- What type of surname is Manley?
- Manley is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname Manley getting more or less common?
- Less common. 25,159 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 25,136 in 2010, down 0.1%.