as a Last Name
- 2,608
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Howley
Meaning & Origins
English (chiefly Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Cheshire, Gloucestershire, and West Yorkshire. The first is from a lost place in Lower Bebington, named from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + weg ‘way’; the second is from Old English hol + lēah ‘woodland clearing’; and the last, Howley Hall in Moreley, is from Old English hōfe ‘ground ivy’ + lēah.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,608
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Connecticut
- has the most people named Howley per capita
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