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Harley


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Origin Of The Surname Harley

Meaning Of The Surname Harley

From the Town by the Rocky Woods

Interesting Facts About Harley

Harley is a locational surname coming 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 ‘hoer’ meaning rocky and ‘leah’ meaning woods. Places with this name would have been located next to ‘rocky woods’.

Harley Statistics

Harley is the number 1211 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 8,198 share the surname Harley in the UK.

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