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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.

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

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The only one I can think of is jazz singer Lee Wiley.

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