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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Emslie

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish (Aberdeen) : evidently a habitational name, probably from an unidentified place named with the Old English elements elm ‘elm’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, with an intrusive -s-. There are places called Elmley in Kent and Worcestershire.

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