Scilly 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 1
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 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 3
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 0

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

Scilly Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Scilly family

Profession Census Frequency
Servant 1
Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Scilly

Name Census Frequency
Mary Scilly 10
Sarah Scilly 10
Thomas Scilly 8
William Scilly 8
John Scilly 7
James Scilly 6
Alice Scilly 4
Philip Scilly 4
Walter Scilly 4
Lydia Scilly 3
Catherine Scilly 2
Edith Scilly 2
Elizabeth Scilly 2
Ellen Scilly 2
Emily Scilly 2
Ernest Scilly 2
Henry Scilly 2
Herbert Scilly 2
Maria Scilly 2
Ada Scilly 1
Amelia Scilly 1
Ann Scilly 1
Annie Scilly 1
Charlotte Scilly 1
Cladrie Scilly 1

Scilly Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Scully 83% 4,767
2 Sulley 50% 2,731
3 Sculley 71% 1,296
4 Scally 83% 789
5 Suley 50% 365
6 Scalley 71% 265
7 Scollay 71% 133
8 Scilly 100% 104

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The surname Scilly is the 8th most popular variant of Scully.

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