The willey Surname
willey Name Meaning and History
- habitational name from any of various places so named. Those in Cheshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Warwickshire are named from an Old English wilig ‘willow’ + Old English leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’; one in Devon probably has Old English wiðig ‘willow’ as the first element, while one in Surrey has Old English weoh ‘(pre-Christian) temple’.
- variant spelling of Willy 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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