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- 2,015
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Walmsley
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from Walmersley in Greater Manchester, which according to Ekwall is named from Old English wald ‘forest’ + mere ‘lake’ or (ge)mǣre ‘boundary’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. However, it is perhaps more plausibly from the genitive case of an Old English personal name Walhmǣr, meaning ‘foreign-famous’, or Waldmǣr ‘rule-famous’ + Old English lēah.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,015
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Rhode Island
- has the most people named Walmsley per capita
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