Meaning and Origin of: Caley

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• Irish : Victorious people

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Family name origins & meanings

• English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from places in Eure and Seine-Maritime, France, called Cailly, from a Romano-Gallic personal name Callius + the locative suffix -acum.
• English : habitational name from a minor place called Caley in the parish of Winwick, Lancashire, named with Old English cā ‘jackdaw’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
• Irish : reduced and altered form of McCauley.
• Manx : variant of Callow.

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