Lingley — Family Name, Records and Arms

Sharing the Lingley name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Family name meaning

Lingley began as an English family name. Smith's 1956 dictionary gives the meaning “one who came from Linley (meadow where flax was grown), in Shropshire”.

That makes it a habitational name, first given to someone from that place. Related forms include Linley. The 2010 US Census counted 323 people named Lingley, ranking it number 62,045 among American surnames. That puts it inside the top 100,000 US surnames. Lingley sounds close to Langley, so it can help to search both.

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