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Origin Of The Surname Handley
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Meaning Of The Surname Handley
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Handley
Handley is a locational surname originating from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English elements ‘heah’ meaning high and ‘leah’ meaning woods. The original towns would have been located in a raised wooded area. |
Handley Statistics
Handley is the number 972 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 9,982 share the surname Handley in the UK.
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