What We Know About the Weekley Surname

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Meaning of the name

Weekley began as an English family name. The usual explanation, from Elsdon Smith, is “one who came from Weekley (wych-elm wood), in Northamptonshire”.

That makes it a habitational name, first given to someone from that place. The 2010 US Census counted 4,072 people named Weekley, ranking it number 8,139 among American surnames. That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames.

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