Gulley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Perhaps an altered spelling of French Goulley, a variant of Goulet
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Gulley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 23Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 25Kfew records
- SGSingapore≈1 in 31Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 368 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
10,605 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Perhaps an altered spelling of French Goulley, a variant of Goulet. Gull! (185) Italian: patronymic or plural form of Gullo.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Gulley is found
(measured from records)Gulley 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 10,605 | 1 in 31K | 11K | Gulley | 368 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Gulley | 85 |
| CA Canada | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Gulley | 57 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Gulley | 4 |
| AU Australia | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Gulley | 56 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Gulley | 23 |
| IE Ireland | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Gulley | 4 |
| SG Singapore | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Gulley | 2 |
10,605 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. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Gulley is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Alternative spelling of gully (Etymology 1).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- James Gulleyb. 1965USAmerican basketball player (born 1965)
- Jarmar Gulleyb. 1991USAmerican basketball player (born 1991)
- Kellen Gulleyb. 1994USAmerican soccer player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Gulley come from?
- Perhaps an altered spelling of French Goulley, a variant of Goulet. Gull! (185) Italian: patronymic or plural form of Gullo. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Gulley mean?
- Recorded meaning: Perhaps an altered spelling of French Goulley, a variant of Goulet.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gulley?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Gulley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gulley. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Malaysia and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gulley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,605 people named Gulley in 2010, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gulley?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gulleyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Gulley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.