Walley: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Spelling was not fixed until the modern era, so Whaley could easily become Walley. Its meaning, shared with Whaley, is “Road clearing”. Records show Walley as one of the forms Whaley took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Whalley.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Walley surname had 4,730 bearers. That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames. Walley sounds close to Wall, so it can help to search both.

Arms linked to Whaley and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Walley family name pack.