Given name & surname
Turley
“son of Toirdealbhach”
Turley is a surname from Irish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Turley goes back to Irish Mac Toirdealbhaigh, meaning “son of Toirdealbhach.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Mac Toirdealbhaigh (“son of Toirdealbhach”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Turley through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1955
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1955. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 10,245 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Turley’s family of names
Turley is an English adaptation of Toirdhealbhach.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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