Desley 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 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
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 2
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 1

Wales

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

Desley Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Desley family

Profession Census Frequency
Shell Dealer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Desley

Name Census Frequency
William Desley 11
Mary Desley 10
Elizabeth Desley 7
George Desley 7
John Desley 7
Joseph Desley 7
Ellen Desley 5
Thomas Desley 5
James Desley 4
Jane Desley 4
Richard Desley 4
Robert Desley 4
Alice Desley 3
Ann Desley 3
Annie Desley 3
Arthur Desley 3
Sarah Desley 3
Alfred Desley 2
Charles Desley 2
Clara Desley 2
Eleanor Desley 2
Florence Desley 2
Harriet Desley 2
Harriett Desley 2
Harry Desley 2

Desley Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Disley 83% 4,344
2 Audsley 57% 1,822
3 Daisley 71% 1,202
4 Adsley 67% 373
5 Dasley 83% 223
6 Deasley 86% 153
7 Desley 100% 144
8 Dosley 83% 143
9 Dusley 83% 122

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The surname Desley is the 7th most popular variant of Disley.

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