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My great-grandpa's and my dad's middle name. Had I been a boy, it would have been my middle name (my mom spent a lot of time praying for a girl). I love it, especially for a MN, but my husband hates it as much as my mom does.

Wiley has been a name in my husband's family since the late 1800s. Even today, the name occasionally crops up as a boy's first or middle name. The boys all seem content and un-teased. Outside the family, though, we rarely hear it, which is too bad. It's one of those Anglo-Saxon names that's unique but not freakish or burdened with trendy spelling.

My maiden name is Wiley. I loved it and was sad to give it up when I got married so I kept it as my middle name--so did all of my sisters!

Nicknames for Wiley: | Edit

Wile E. Coyote, Smiley Wiley, Wiles, Wolley Segap (yellow pages backward), Wildcat

Meanings and history of the name Wiley: | Edit

wily - marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"characterized by or proceeding from wiles; sly or crafty

Thesaurus - foxy, guileful, knavish, crafty, sly, tricksy, cunning, dodgy, tricky, slick
artful - marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"

Famous real-life people named Wiley: | Edit

Jazz singer Lee Wiley.
David Wiley Miller (born April 15, 1951, Burbank, California), an American cartoonist whose work is characterized by wry wit
Wiley Brooks, a former leading U.S. figure in the breatharian movement
Wiley Post, the first person to fly solo around the world
Wiley Scribner, American politician

Wiley in song, story & screen: | Edit

"What about Bob" - Stars: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss,
Bob Wiley is a recluse who is so afraid to leave his own apartment that he ...SEE THE MOVIE