Woley 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 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 1
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 2
Nottinghamshire 1
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 2
Staffordshire 1
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

Woley Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Woley family

Profession Census Frequency
Helper 1
Dress Amker 1
Stone Mason 1
Domestic Servant 1
House Keeper 1
Retired Farmer 1
Hawker 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Woley

Name Census Frequency
Mary Woley 11
Thomas Woley 7
William Woley 7
John Woley 6
Ann Woley 5
Elizabeth Woley 5
George Woley 5
Jane Woley 4
James Woley 3
Joseph Woley 3
Betsy Woley 2
Edith Woley 2
Eliza Woley 2
Emma Woley 2
Louisa Woley 2
Margaret Woley 2
Samuel Woley 2
Sarah Woley 2
Steven Woley 2
Albert Woley 1
Alice Woley 1
Anne Woley 1
Annie Woley 1
Anthony Woley 1
Arthur Woley 1

Woley Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Woolley 71% 44,497
2 Wooley 83% 13,380
3 Wiley 80% 5,529
4 Woolly 67% 908
5 Waley 80% 763
6 Wooly 60% 252
7 Wailey 67% 183
8 Wealey 67% 114
9 Woley 100% 111

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The surname Woley is the 9th most popular variant of Woolley.

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