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The ely Surname

ely Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from the cathedral city on an island in the fens north of Cambridge. It is so named from Old English ?l ‘eel’ + ge ‘district’.
  2. Probably also an Americanized form of German Eley.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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ely Family Facts

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Distribution of ely Families in the US in 1920
Number of ely families
 170-338
 57-169		 1-56
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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