Frequency: (845)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Wrigley Head near Salford, the second element of which is presumably Old English lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’; the first may be a personal name or topographical term from Old English wrigian ‘to strive’, ‘to bend or turn’.
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