as a Last Name
- 14,401
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Medley
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. habitational name, either a variant of Madeley (a name common to several places, including one in Shropshire and two in Staffordshire), named in Old English as ‘Māda's clearing’, from an unattested byname, Māda (probably a derivative of mād ‘foolish’) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’; or from Medley on the Thames in Oxfordshire, named in Old English with middel ‘middle’ + ēg ‘island’. 2. nickname for an aggressive person, from Middle English, Old French medlee ‘combat’, ‘conflict’ (Late Latin misculata).
| 2,530th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 14,401
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Medley per capita
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