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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : From the deep meadow

Boy name variations

Shipley

Shipley

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Dorset, Glloucestershire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, and Shropshire, so called from Old English scēap, scīp ‘sheep’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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