Worley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: perhaps 'person from Warley' (Essex and Somerset or West Midlands); or a different form of Wortley
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwɝɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Worley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 13K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 14K
- ITItaly≈1 in 23K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 428 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
perhaps 'person from Warley' (Essex and Somerset or West Midlands); or a different form of Wortley
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Worley 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Worley | 7 |
| US United States | — | 25,758 | 1 in 13K | 26K | Worley | 428 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2.9K | Worley | 159 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Worley | 4 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Worley | 9 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Worley | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | #377 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Worley | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Worley | 1 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Worley 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, place that has not been identified with certainty. It is per¬ haps a var. of Wortley, or is from places in Essex and
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
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 Worleyb. 1686GBEnglish pirate
- Eugene Worleyb. 1908USAmerican politician (1908-1974)
- Jo Anne Worleyb. 1937USAmerican actress
- Len Worleyb. 1937GBEnglish footballer (born 1937)
- Paul Worleyb. 1950USAmerican musician
- Darryl Worleyb. 1964USAmerican country music artist
- Becky Worleyb. 1971USAmerican television broadcaster and former rugby union player
- Vance Worleyb. 1987USAmerican baseball player
- Harry Worleyb. 1988GBBritish footballer (born 1988)
- Tessa Worleyb. 1989FRFrench alpine skier
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 23 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 26K | #1,370 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 25K | #1,271 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 24K | #1,425 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2.9K | #2,635 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Worley mean, and where does it come from?
- perhaps 'person from Warley' (Essex and Somerset or West Midlands); or a different form of Wortley Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Worley?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɝɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Worley have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 208 thousand people named Worley in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled worley.
- How common is the name Worley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,758 people named Worley in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Worley compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Worley is the 377th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Worley?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/worleyThe 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, “Worley” — the 377th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.