as a Last Name
- 232
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Farnsley
Meaning & Origins
English: of uncertain origin. It is probably a habitational name; there is a Farnsley Farm in Derbyshire, or it could perhaps be from any of three places in Yorkshire named Farnley, named in Old English with fearn ‘fern’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The surname seems to have died out in England.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 232
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Indiana
- has the most people named Farnsley per capita
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