Coley

Family name origins & meanings

• English (West Midlands) : nickname for a swarthy person, from Old English colig ‘dark’, ‘black’ (a derivative of col ‘(char)coal’).
• English : possibly a habitational name from Coaley in Gloucestershire, named in Old English as ‘woodland clearing (lēah) with a hut or shelter (cofa)’.
• Probably an Americanized form of Swiss German Kohli or Kohler.