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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Tilley

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Tilly.
  • English : habitational name from Tilley in Shropshire, named from Old English telga ‘branch’, ‘bough’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
  • English : occupational name for a husbandman, Middle English tilie (Old English tilia, a primary derivative of tilian ‘to till or cultivate’).
  • English : from the medieval female personal name Tilly, a pet form of Till.

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