Wooly 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	0
Norfolk	0
Northamptonshire	0
Nottinghamshire	0
Oxfordshire	0
Rutland	0
Shropshire	0
Suffolk	0

Somerset	1
Surrey	0
Sussex	0
Staffordshire	0
Warwickshire	2
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

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Wooly Surname Statistics

Top Professions for the Wooly family

Profession	Census Frequency
Barristers Clerk	1
Blacksmith	1
General Servant	1
Pearl Button Maker	1
Press Worker	1

Most Frequent Forenames for Wooly

Name	Census Frequency
Sarah Wooly	17
John Wooly	15
William Wooly	15
Elizabeth Wooly	12
Mary Wooly	11
James Wooly	10
George Wooly	7
Henry Wooly	6
Joseph Wooly	6
Thomas Wooly	6
Eliza Wooly	5
Hannah Wooly	5
Rose Wooly	5
Ann Wooly	4
Annie Wooly	4
Charles Wooly	4
Lizzie Wooly	4
Abraham Wooly	3
Alfred Wooly	3
Arthur Wooly	3
Emily Wooly	3
Emma Wooly	3
Frances Wooly	3
Martha Wooly	3
Robert Wooly	3

Wooly Surname Variants Ranking

Rank	Surname	Match	Census Frequency
1	Woolley	71%	44,497
2	Wooley	83%	13,380
3	Wiley	40%	5,529
4	Woolly	83%	908
5	Waley	40%	763
6	Wooly	100%	252
7	Wailey	50%	183
8	Wealey	50%	114
9	Woley	60%	111

Did you know?

The surname Wooly is the 6th most popular variant of Woolley.