Dorley

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Dorley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.9M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

265 people, 2010

Sources
23 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dorley counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Dorley is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2651 in 1.3M341Dorley10
NL Netherlands61 in 2.9M6—1
CO Colombia———Dorley14
BR Brazil——45Dorley23
PE Peru———Dorley4

265 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dorley is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written D'Orley

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Dorley
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020341#63,263
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010265#73,215
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000227#78,326
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20076#74,883
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Dorley have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 265 people named Dorley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dorley.
Where is Dorley most common?
Dorley is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Dorley?
In the United States, the national register counted 265 people named Dorley in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dorley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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