Folley Family History
Folley Name Meaning
habitational name from any of the minor places in
Wiltshire, Warwickshire, and other counties called (The) Folly,
usually from Middle English folie in the sense ‘folly’,
‘foolish enterprise’, but otherwise from Old French feuillie
‘leafy bower or shelter’, later ‘clump of trees’. In some cases, the
name may be topographic.nickname for an eccentric or foolish
person, from Old French folie ‘foolishness’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Folley
Name Distribution of Folley Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Folley families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Folley families
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59 - 116 20 - 58 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Folley families
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14 - 25 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Folley Family Origin
Folley Immigration Information
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Folley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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