Glay 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 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 6
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

Glay Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Glay family

Profession Census Frequency
Domestic Servant Cook 1
Laborer Market General 1
Wife 1
Scholar 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Glay

Name Census Frequency
William Glay 15
John Glay 11
Elizabeth Glay 10
Mary Glay 10
George Glay 9
James Glay 8
Annie Glay 6
Ellen Glay 6
Samuel Glay 6
Thomas Glay 6
Jane Glay 5
Ann Glay 4
Alfred Glay 3
Eliza Glay 3
Emma Glay 3
Harriet Glay 3
Joseph Glay 3
Sarah Glay 3
Edith Glay 2
Edward Glay 2
Emily Glay 2
Frederick Glay 2
Fredrick Glay 2
Hugh Glay 2
Jacob Glay 2

Glay Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Ogley 60% 2,390
2 Galey 60% 1,147
3 Egley 60% 679
4 Gailey 50% 418
5 Gealy 60% 361
6 Guley 60% 356
7 Gooley 50% 258
8 Glay 100% 214
9 Goley 60% 205
10 Agley 60% 194
11 Gley 75% 181
12 Giley 60% 153

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The surname Glay is the 8th most popular variant of Ogley.

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