Lumley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Lumley, County Durham ('glade with a pool')
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɐmʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lumley is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
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)
person from Lumley, County Durham ('glade with a pool')
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lumley is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Lumley, Durham; first attested William de Lumeley 1235–6 AssDu
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
habitational name from Lumley, a place in County Durham, so named from Old English lum(m) ‘pool’ (see Lum 1) + leak ‘woodland clearing’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A surname from Old English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, Though in most cases this is simply de Lumley (from an English place-name) the fact that Ó Lomthaile is on record in mediaeval Co. Cork is worthy of mention
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbroughb. 1650GBEnglish Earl (1650-1721)
- William Lumleyb. 1769GBBritish Napoleonic Wars general
- Benjamin Lumleyb. 1810CABritish opera manager (1811–1875)
- Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbroughb. 1857GBBritish Army general (1857-1945)
- Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbroughb. 1896GBBritish Army general (1896-1969)
- Brian Lumleyb. 1937GBEnglish horror fiction writer (1937–2024)
- Edward Lumleyb. 1939CACanadian politician (1939-2025)
- Joanna Lumleyb. 1946GBBritish actress and former model
- Karen Lumleyb. 1964GBBritish politician (1964–2023)
- Joe Lumleyb. 1995GBEnglish association football player (born 1995)
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 19 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,729 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,200 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,936 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #36,441 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #60,161 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #111,511 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #228,797 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #274,376 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #246,828 |
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 given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Lumley mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Lumley, County Durham ('glade with a pool') Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Lumley?
- A machine transcription gives /lɐmʎi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lumley have the most bearers?
- Lumley is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Lumley?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lumleyThe 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, “Lumley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.