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finley Name Meaning and History

Scottish: from the Gaelic personal name Fionnlagh (Old Irish Findlaech), composed of the elements fionn ‘white’, ‘fair’ (see Finn) + laoch ‘warrior’, ‘hero’, which seems to have been reinforced by an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements finn ‘Finn’ + leikr ‘fight’, ‘battle’, ‘hero’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of finley Families in the US in 1920
Number of finley families
 197-391
 66-196		 1-65
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