as a Last Name
- 11,322
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Lindley
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from either of two places in West Yorkshire called Lindley, or from Linley in Shropshire and Wiltshire, all named from Old English līn ‘flax’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘glade’, with epenthetic -d-, or from another Lindley in West Yorkshire (near Otley), named in Old English as ‘lime wood’, from lind ‘lime tree’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.Lindley in Leicestershire probably also has this origin, and is a further possible source of the surname.
| 3,195th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 11,322
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Virgin Island
- has the most people named Lindley per capita
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