as a Last Name
- 12,647
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Willey
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. habitational name from any of various places so named. Those in Cheshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Warwickshire are named from an Old English wilig ‘willow’ + Old English lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’; one in Devon probably has Old English wīðig ‘willow’ as the first element, while one in Surrey has Old English wēoh ‘(pre-Christian) temple’. 2. variant spelling of Willy 2.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,647
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Delaware
- has the most people named Willey per capita
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