Hulley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: possibly a habitational name from Ulley in South Yorkshire, probably so named from Old English ule ‘owl’ -t- leah ‘(woodland) clearing’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/həɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hulley is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- ZASouth Africa
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Ulleyin(measured from records)
- Old Englishule(measured from records)
possibly a habitational name from Ulley in South Yorkshire, probably so named from Old English ule ‘owl’ -t- leah ‘(woodland) clearing’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Henry Hulleyb. 1783IEIrish painter
- John Hulleyb. 1832GBBritish businessman
- Josef Hulleyb. 1852DE(1852-1913)
- Lincoln Hulleyb. 1865USAmerican poet, playwright, and university administrator
- Karl K. Hulleyb. 1898USAmerican classical philologist (1898-1983)
- Annie Hulleyb. 1955GBEnglish actress
- Alexandra Hulleyb. 1997AUAustralian athlete
- H. HulleyIEIrish painter
- Edward HulleyBritish mathematician
- Philippa A. HulleyGBresearcher
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)
Attested in 17 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 384 | #57,292 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 383 | #51,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 310 | #64,200 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #198,881 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #222,974 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Hulley mean, and where does it come from?
- possibly a habitational name from Ulley in South Yorkshire, probably so named from Old English ule ‘owl’ -t- leah ‘(woodland) clearing’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hulley?
- A machine transcription gives /həɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hulley have the most bearers?
- Hulley is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Hulley?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hulleyThe 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, “Hulley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.