Daley Surname
Approximately 67,840 people bear this surname
Daley Surname Definition:
(Celtic) Councillor [Irish dálach] (English) Dweller at 1 the Doe-Lea [Old English da + leáh] 2 the Dale-Lea [Old English dæl + leáh] (French) the French Dailly or D’Ailly ~ Of Ailly, a fairly common French place- name.
Read More About This SurnameDaley Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 33,427 | 1:10,843 | 1,330 |
| Jamaica | 10,769 | 1:267 | 49 |
| England | 9,191 | 1:6,062 | 866 |
| Australia | 6,774 | 1:3,985 | 567 |
| Canada | 4,765 | 1:7,733 | 1,134 |
| Wales | 411 | 1:7,529 | 837 |
| New Zealand | 375 | 1:12,076 | 2,103 |
| Scotland | 233 | 1:22,978 | 2,581 |
| South Africa | 228 | 1:237,622 | 24,428 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 205 | 1:484 | 82 |
| India | 204 | 1:3,760,124 | 104,250 |
| Panama | 125 | 1:31,298 | 1,805 |
| Ireland | 102 | 1:46,166 | 3,435 |
| Costa Rica | 97 | 1:49,279 | 1,132 |
| Northern Ireland | 74 | 1:24,933 | 2,784 |
| Bahamas | 64 | 1:6,121 | 584 |
| Montserrat | 62 | 1:80 | 10 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 59 | 1:1,871 | 308 |
| France | 56 | 1:1,186,120 | 124,657 |
| Thailand | 44 | 1:1,605,417 | 210,847 |
| Singapore | 43 | 1:128,086 | 5,748 |
| Cayman Islands | 30 | 1:2,130 | 271 |
| Spain | 29 | 1:1,612,139 | 47,760 |
| Germany | 28 | 1:2,875,195 | 137,699 |
| Bermuda | 24 | 1:2,720 | 427 |
| Guernsey | 22 | 1:2,929 | 767 |
| Nigeria | 22 | 1:8,051,944 | 174,166 |
| Denmark | 19 | 1:297,090 | 21,940 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 18 | 1:75,776 | 5,658 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 17 | 1:2,019 | 214 |
| Netherlands | 16 | 1:1,055,448 | 66,951 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 15 | 1:3,680 | 468 |
| Liberia | 14 | 1:314,895 | 17,893 |
| Barbados | 12 | 1:23,954 | 1,149 |
| Qatar | 12 | 1:196,500 | 26,891 |
| Belize | 10 | 1:35,547 | 2,218 |
| Guyana | 10 | 1:76,222 | 5,818 |
| Hong Kong | 10 | 1:733,548 | 3,685 |
| Jersey | 10 | 1:9,920 | 2,003 |
| Argentina | 9 | 1:4,749,268 | 159,873 |
| Aruba | 9 | 1:11,497 | 1,511 |
| Cuba | 9 | 1:1,280,302 | 7,343 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Japan | 9 | 1:14,204,921 | 46,388 |
| Niger | 9 | 1:2,132,446 | 40,124 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 | 1:3,428,424 | 32,607 |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 | 1:1,018,030 | 36,884 |
| Papua New Guinea | 8 | 1:1,019,215 | 101,897 |
| Brazil | 7 | 1:30,582,047 | 441,004 |
| Sweden | 7 | 1:1,406,680 | 102,017 |
| Russia | 6 | 1:24,020,509 | 493,300 |
| Greece | 5 | 1:2,215,958 | 91,893 |
| Honduras | 5 | 1:1,763,288 | 5,823 |
| Ivory Coast | 5 | 1:4,614,246 | 51,139 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Anguilla | 4 | 1:3,359 | 324 |
| China | 4 | 1:341,830,392 | 16,990 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| Czechia | 4 | 1:2,658,367 | 127,801 |
| Dominica | 4 | 1:18,973 | 529 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| Indonesia | 4 | 1:33,062,298 | 643,618 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 1:7,373,556 | 230,001 |
| Norway | 4 | 1:1,285,572 | 69,185 |
| Isle of Man | 3 | 1:28,607 | 3,614 |
| Peru | 3 | 1:10,594,708 | 45,902 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Ecuador | 2 | 1:7,952,923 | 34,269 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Nicaragua | 2 | 1:3,010,545 | 7,383 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 2 | 1:56,330 | 1,327 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 1:46,323,027 | 5,235 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| British Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:31,594 | 1,029 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Cape Verde | 1 | 1:529,642 | 6,792 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Laos | 1 | 1:6,588,323 | 1,961 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Micronesia | 1 | 1:106,243 | 1,380 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 1:178,781 | 3,800 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 709 | 1:6,248 | 999 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 3,186 | 1:7,651 | 1,176 |
| Wales | 258 | 1:6,079 | 398 |
| Scotland | 94 | 1:39,821 | 3,041 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:51,882 | 3,898 |
| Isle of Man | 1 | 1:54,269 | 2,077 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7,226 | 1:6,950 | 879 |
The alternate forms: Dáléy (1) are calculated separately.
Daley (1,205) may also be a first name.
Daley Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(Celtic) Councillor [Irish dálach] (English) Dweller at 1 the Doe-Lea [Old English da + leáh] 2 the Dale-Lea [Old English dæl + leáh] (French) the French Dailly or D’Ailly ~ Of Ailly, a fairly common French place- name.
(Irish) Grandson of Dalach (frequenting assemblies).
User-submitted Reference
From the Latin, dail, meaning 'assembly'. The root of the name and all its derivatives can be traced back to the single meaning of 'one that gathers at assemblies'. The earliest ancestors with the surname O'Dalaigh were often poets and/or scholars and were present in the courts of many high lords.
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Daley Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Daley Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Daley (Hindi: दलेय, Oriya: ଦାେଲୟ, Tibetan: བདའ་ལེགས།) occurs most in The United States. It may also occur in the variant forms: Dáléy. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Daley? popularity and diffusion
The surname Daley is the 8,395th most frequently occurring last name on a global scale. It is borne by approximately 1 in 107,423 people. The last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 73 percent of Daley live; 56 percent live in North America and 56 percent live in Anglo-North America. Daley is also the 228,168th most frequently held first name on earth, borne by 1,205 people.
This last name is most commonly used in The United States, where it is borne by 33,427 people, or 1 in 10,843. In The United States it is most common in: New York, where 14 percent live, California, where 9 percent live and Florida, where 8 percent live. Excluding The United States this last name occurs in 108 countries. It also occurs in Jamaica, where 16 percent live and England, where 14 percent live.
Daley Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Daley has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Daley last name rose 463 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 288 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it rose 159 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it rose 248 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it decreased 86 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Daley Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the last name is primarily Catholic (86%) in Ireland.
In The United States those bearing the Daley last name are 2.2% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 51.03% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Daley earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 83.13% more than the national average, earning R 435,180 per year; in United States they earn 6.71% more than the national average, earning $46,044 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.84% more than the national average, earning $50,098 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Daley Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Daley in the Hindi language | ||
| दलेय | daleya | - |
| Daley in the Oriya language | ||
| ଦାେଲୟ | daelaya | - |
| Daley in the Tibetan language | ||
| བདའ་ལེགས། | dalek | 25 |
| དྲ་ལི། | drali | 25 |
| དགྲ་ལེགས། | dralek | 25 |
| དགྲ་ལེགས | dralek | 25 |
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