Släkthistoria för Tilley
Tilley Vad efternamn betyder
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Tilly-sur-Seulles (Calvados) or Tilly (Eure) France. English: habitational name from Tyley in Wotton under Edge (Gloucestershire) Tiley in Minterne Magna (Dorset) or Tilley (Shropshire). The Gloucestershire and Dorset placenames derive from Old English tigel ‘tile’ + lēah ‘wood woodland clearing’. The Shropshire placename derives from an uncertain first element + Old English lēah. English: occupational name from Middle English tilie ‘one who tills the land a husbandman’. Compare Tiller. English: from a possible diminutive of the Middle English female personal name Till a pet form of Matilda. Irish: variant of Tully.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
