Cheley Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 1
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 21
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 7
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 1
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 6
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 1
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Cheley Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Cheley family

Profession Census Frequency
Female Servant 3
Agricultural Labourer 3
Blacksmith Journeyman 1
Male Servant 1
Miner 1
Blacksmith 1
Prof Of Music 1
Draper Journeyman 1
Ladies &c Minary 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Cheley

Name Census Frequency
William Cheley 23
John Cheley 22
Elizabeth Cheley 18
Mary Cheley 17
Thomas Cheley 9
Sarah Cheley 8
Charles Cheley 7
Frederick Cheley 7
Emma Cheley 6
Henry Cheley 6
Jane Cheley 6
Emily Cheley 5
James Cheley 5
Edward Cheley 4
Hannah Cheley 4
Albert Cheley 3
Ann Cheley 3
Catherine Cheley 3
Elsie Cheley 3
Harriet Cheley 3
Ivor Cheley 3
Lucy Cheley 3
Richard Cheley 3
Robert Cheley 3
Arthur Cheley 2

Cheley Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Chilly 67% 592
2 Cheley 100% 257
3 Chilley 71% 240
4 Chelley 86% 180

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The surname Cheley is the 2nd most popular variant of Chilly.

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