Lindley Family History
Lindley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places in West
Yorkshire called Lindley, or from Linley in Shropshire and Wiltshire,
all named from Old English lin ‘flax’ + leah
‘wood’, ‘glade’, with epenthetic -d-, or from another Lindley
in West Yorkshire (near Otley), named in Old English as ‘lime wood’,
from lind ‘lime tree’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Lindley in Leicestershire probably also has this origin, and is a
further possible source of the surname.German:
habitational name from places in Bavaria and Hannover called Lindloh,
meaning ‘lime grove’, or a topographic name with the same meaning (see
Linde + Loh).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Lindley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lindley families
 97 - 191  33 - 96 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lindley families
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838 - 1,673 280 - 837 |
1 - 279 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lindley families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lindley Family Origin
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