as a Last Name
- 1,930
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Yardley
Meaning & Origins
English (West Midlands): habitational name from any of various places, for example Yardley in the West Midlands, Essex, Northamptonshire, etc., or Yarley in Somerset, named with Old English gerd, gyrd ‘pole’, ‘stick’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. The compound apparently referred to a forest where timber could be gathered.
| 13,533rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,930
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Yardley per capita
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