Waly is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Waly
No. of characters: 4
Origin: Ireland, England
Meaning:

Surname is form of the Whaley. See Whalley - A great parish in Yorkshire, where the ancestors of the baronet resided in the last century.

Lastname Waly is variation of Walley. A variant of Whaley that means "meadow by a road or hill".

Form of Whaley. One who came from Whaley, i.e., meadow by a road or hill, the name of places in Cheshire and Derbyshire.

How popular is Waly?

Waly is common in Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Indonesia, Syria, Yemen, Bangladesh, Mauritania, Morocco, United Arab Emirates.

Waly is ranked 13506 on our list.

Waly is quite popular family name mostly used in Egypt however Iraq is ahead in terms of density. Around 41368 people have been found who wears Waly as their family name. Waly is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with ten thousands of Waly:
673 Egypt17,481
295 Iraq14,630
Countries with thousands of Waly:
1,726 Saudi Arabia2,465
369 Senegal1,541
9,339 Indonesia1,484
Countries with hundreds of Waly:
1,504 Syria936
3,091 Yemen786
7,887 Bangladesh631
1,023 Mauritania413
42,794 Morocco136
7,855 United Arab Emirates107
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
5,304 Kuwait87
22,731 Pakistan67
113,182 France65
314,624 United States54
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
6,238 Burkina Faso45
63,991 Canada45
7,058 Palestine44
29,580 Papua New Guinea38
106,971 DR Congo34
20,430 Ivory Coast31
16,981 Niger27
25,646 Sweden27
11,536 Qatar22
10,344 Lebanon18
183,652 Germany17
4,719 New Caledonia16
78,777 Malaysia15
42,452 Benin13
7,191 Tunisia11
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
170,599 England9
355,097 Nigeria6
101,176 Netherlands6
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Immigrants to US

From Germany

Laborer A. Waly from Germany aboard the George Hurlbut from Havre. He is registered to be 34 years old when he arrived in USA on September 24, 1852. L. Waly (24) Laborer, C. Waly, aged 20, Agnes Waly, Anton Waly, aged 12, Laborer John Waly, Joseph Waly, aged 7, Wilhelm Waly, Joh. Waly, aged 28, are others that migrated to US from Havre, Liverpool, Bremen & Southampton and Antwerp.

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