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likely Name Meaning and History

Origin uncertain. Possibly a variant of English Lightly, a surname of unexplained origin, assimilated by folk etymology to the vocabulary word likely.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of likely Families in the US in 1920
Number of likely families
 9-15
 4-8		 1-3
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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African American LIKELY/LACKLEY tlikely 3
HI FAMILY! Ashley 1
hi Mary Likely 3
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