Jolley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: One who jigs
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈdʒɑɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jolley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Turks & Caicos Islands it is the 14th most common surname.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 25K
- USUnited States1 in 35K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 370 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
9,392 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)One who jigs.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jolley 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 | — | 9,392 | 1 in 35K | 9.4K | Jolley | 370 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Jolley | 165 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Jolley | 4 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Jolley | 120 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Jolley | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Jolley | 28 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Jolley | 25 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #14 | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Jolley | 1 |
9,392 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- John L. Jolleyb. 1840USAmerican politician (1840-1926)
- Edward Jolleyb. 1874AUAustralian politician
- I. Stanford Jolleyb. 1900USAmerican actor (1900-1978)
- Dan Jolleyb. 1901USAmerican writer of children's fiction, comics, video games
- Elizabeth Jolleyb. 1923AUAustralian writer (1923-2007)
- Stan Jolleyb. 1926USart director, production designer (1926-2012)
- Steve Jolleyb. 1950GBBritish songwriter, record producer
- Clark Jolleyb. 1970USAmerican politician
- Christian Jolleyb. 1988GBBritish footballer
- Ethan Jolleyb. 1997GBGibraltarian association football 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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.4K | #3,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.2K | #3,749 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.1K | #3,574 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Jolley mean, and where does it come from?
- One who jigs. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jolley?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒɑɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jolley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.4 thousand people named Jolley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jolley.
- How common is the name Jolley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,392 people named Jolley in 2010, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Jolley compared with other names?
- In Turks & Caicos Islands, Jolley is the 14th most common surname of 3,662 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jolleyThe 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, “Jolley” — the 14th most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.