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The foley Surname

foley Name Meaning and History

  1. (southern) reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Foghladha ‘descendant of Foghlaidh’, a byname meaning ‘pirate’, ‘marauder’.
  2. (northern) Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Searraigh (see McSharry), chosen because of its phonetic approximation to English foal.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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foley Family Facts

Distribution of foley Families in the US in 1920
Number of foley families
 839-1675
 280-838
 1-279
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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