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Cowley
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Origin Of The Surname Cowley
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Meaning Of The Surname Cowley
From the Town by the Forest with Stumps
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Interesting
Facts About
Cowley
Cowley 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 ‘cufl’ meaning stump of wood and ‘leah’ meaning cleared wood. Places with this name would have been next to an area of cleared forest where trees had been felled leaving stumps. |
Cowley Statistics
Cowley is the number 1170 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,312 share the surname Cowley in the UK.
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