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yardley Name Meaning and History

English (West Midlands): habitational name from any of various places, for example Yardley in the West Midlands, Essex, Northamptonshire, etc., or Yarley in Somerset, named with Old English gerd, gyrd ‘pole’, ‘stick’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. The compound apparently referred to a forest where timber could be gathered.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of yardley Families in the US in 1920
Number of yardley families
 26-49
 9-25		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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