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Worley Name Meaning
English: most probably a habitational name, either from a variant
spelling of Wortley, or alternatively from places in Essex and
Somerset called Warley, named in Old English with wær,
wer ‘weir’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, or from Warley
in the West Midlands, which is named with Old English weorf
‘draft oxen’ + leah.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Worley Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Worley families
 88 - 174  30 - 87 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Worley families
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159 - 315 54 - 158 |
1 - 53 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Worley families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Worley Family Origin
Worley Immigration Information
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Worley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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