as a Last Name
- 24,491
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Whaley
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from Whaley in Derbyshire, Whalley in Lancashire, or Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire (formerly in Cheshire). The first is probably named with Old English wælla ‘spring’, ‘stream’ + lēah ‘(woodland) clearing’. The second has as the first element Old English hwæl ‘round hill’, and the last has Old English weg ‘path’, ‘road’ as the first element, the second element in both cases also being lēah.
| 1,477th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 24,491
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Guam
- has the most people named Whaley per capita
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