The Dulaney surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,507 people carried this name — #6,210 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 53,500 people counted. That is up 3% from 5,366 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Dulaney surname

A variant of Delaney.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Dulaney» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In print

Dulaney in American newspapers,
1903–1909.

Newspaper page from Goodwin's Weekly : A Thinking Paper For Thinking People carrying the name Dulaney
Goodwin's Weekly : A Thinking Paper For Thinking People 1903-06-13
Newspaper page from Goodwin's Weekly : A Thinking Paper For Thinking People carrying the name Dulaney
Goodwin's Weekly : A Thinking Paper For Thinking People 1903-06-13
Newspaper page from The Hawaiian Star carrying the name Dulaney
The Hawaiian Star 1909-02-05

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 26,789 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Dulaney in Australian newspapers,
1880s–1950s.

80 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Dulaney. The most, 15, date from the 1920s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Queensland, at 2.1 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Queensland 32
New South Wales 30
Victoria 11
South Australia 3
Tasmania 2

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Dulaney.

Who carried it

People named Dulaney,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Elkanah Roberts Dulaney d. 1840 · physician
  • Woodford Hector Dulaney 1831–1902
  • Florence Dulaney 1851–1944
  • Elizabeth Elinor Dulaney 1866–1956
  • Robert L. Dulaney 1902–1984

Wikidata (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Dulaney,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States276 records

276 records of the Dulaney name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 188
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 63
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 10
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 6
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 3
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 3
  • Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Clyde W. Dulaney

    Born 1922 in North Carolina. Enlisted 1942 at Camp Croft, South Carolina; farm hand. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 2000, buried at Dulaney Cemetery, Burnsville, North Carolina.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Julia Dulaney

    Arrived at New York in 1873 aboard the City of New York from Liverpool, aged 20. From Ireland.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Robert Dulaney

    U.S. Army veteran. Born 1931, died 1965; buried at Marietta National Cemetery, Georgia.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 276 records for Dulaney in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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