as a Last Name
- 28,070
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Worley
Meaning & Origins
English: most probably a habitational name, either from a variant spelling of Wortley, or alternatively from places in Essex and Somerset called Warley, named in Old English with wær, wer ‘weir’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, or from Warley in the West Midlands, which is named with Old English weorf ‘draft oxen’ + lēah.
| 1,264th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 28,070
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Carolina
- has the most people named Worley per capita
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