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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places called Butterley, in Derbyshire and Herefordshire, or from Butterleigh in Devon. All are named with Old English butere ‘butter’ + lēah ‘pasture’.

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