Hurley vs Lance

Hurley

name
  • An English surname from Old English, a variant of Harley. 

  • An unincorporated community in Alabama; named for early settler Edmund Hurley. 

  • A town in New York; likely named for the village in Berkshire. 

  • A city in Missouri. 

  • A surname from Irish, an anglicization of Ó hUirthile. 

  • A city, the county seat of Iron County, Wisconsin; named for attorney M. A. Hurley. 

  • A village in Berkshire. 

  • A village in Warwickshire. 

  • A census-designated place in Mississippi. 

  • An unincorporated community in Virginia; probably named for early settler Samuel Robert Hurley. 

  • An Irish surname, a variant of Herlihy. 

  • A town in New Mexico. 

  • A city in South Dakota; named for railroad engineer R. E. Hurley. 

Lance

name
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, pet form of Lancelot or transferred use of the surname; by folk etymology associated with a lance. 

  • A surname originating as a patronymic. 

How often have the words Hurley and Lance occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )