as a Last Name
- 7,331
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Woolley
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of various places so called. Most, including those in Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, and West Yorkshire, are named from Old English wulf ‘wolf’ or perhaps the personal name or byname Wulf (see Wolf) + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. One example in Somerset, however, has as its first element Middle English wolle, wulle ‘spring’, ‘stream’ (see Wool 2).
| 4,824th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,331
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Woolley per capita
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