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tilley Name Meaning and History

  1. variant spelling of Tilly.
  2. habitational name from Tilley in Shropshire, named from Old English telga ‘branch’, ‘bough’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
  3. occupational name for a husbandman, Middle English tilie (Old English tilia, a primary derivative of tilian ‘to till or cultivate’).
  4. from the medieval female personal name Tilly, a pet form of Till.

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Distribution of tilley Families in the US in 1920
Number of tilley families
 100-198
 34-99
 1-33
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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