Last name: JOLY
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JOLY : This last name is indexed 1,723,792 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
JOLY : 1: French: nickname for someone of a cheerful or attractive disposition from Old French joli(f) ‘cheerful lively pretty’. Compare Jolie and Jolly.2: English (Channel Islands mainly Jersey): variant of Jolly a cognate of 1 above.
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