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 last name Daley (Hindi: दलेय, Oriya: ଦାେଲୟ, Tibetan: བདའ་ལེགས།) has its highest incidence in The United States. It may also be rendered in the variant forms: Dáléy. Click here for other possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Daley? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 8,395th most commonly occurring last name internationally It is held by around 1 in 107,423 people. This surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 73 percent of Daley are found; 56 percent are found in North America and 56 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Daley is also the 228,168th most numerous first name world-wide, borne by 1,205 people.
Daley is most frequently used in The United States, where it is carried by 33,427 people, or 1 in 10,843. In The United States Daley is most common in: New York, where 14 percent reside, California, where 9 percent reside and Florida, where 8 percent reside. Beside The United States it occurs in 108 countries. It also occurs in Jamaica, where 16 percent reside and England, where 14 percent reside.
Daley Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Daley has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Daley surname increased 463 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it increased 288 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it increased 159 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it increased 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 carrying the Daley last name is chiefly Catholic (86%) in Ireland.
In The United States Daley are 2.2% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 51.03% registered with the political 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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