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The HADLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 20,710 1590 0.008 77
United States (1880 census) 6,113 999 0.012 122
Change since 1880 +14597 -591 -0.004 -45
Other Countries
Australia 1,003 1648 0.006 61
United Kingdom 6,642 951 0.014 145
Top States for HADLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,644 2010 0.005 49
Florida 1,437 1475 0.009 90
Texas 1,391 1794 0.007 67
Indiana 1,005 719 0.017 165
Utah 920 273 0.041 412
Top States for HADLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 920 273 0.041 412
Idaho 286 565 0.022 221
Oregon 618 640 0.018 181
Alabama 747 1023 0.017 168
Indiana 1,005 719 0.017 165

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HADLEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HADLEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HADLEY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HADLEY by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HADLEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HADLEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the HADLEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HADLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 329 1.59
Native American/Alaskan 309 1.49
Mixed Race 292 1.41
Asian/Pacific 147 0.71
White (Caucasian) 16,527 79.8
Black/African American 3,104 14.99

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HADLEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HADLEY in historical publications

(origin: Local) A town of Suffolk, and also of Essex, England, from houdt, a wood, and ley, a place or field.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to HADLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HADLEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HADLEY

The following words are slight variants of HADLEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.