Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from any of the many places called Crawley, named with Old English crāwe ‘crow’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Crowley.
- Probably also a reduced form of Irish McCrawley, an Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Raghallaigh ‘son of Raghallach’, also Anglicized as Magreely.
