as a Last Name
- 6,941
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Horsley
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and Surrey, so named from Old English hors ‘horse’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. The reference is probably to a place where horses were put out to pasture. The surname is widespread in north-central England.
| 5,080th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,941
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Wyoming
- has the most people named Horsley per capita
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