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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places in Derbyshire, named Darley, from Old English dēor ‘beast’, ‘deer’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This surname was taken to Ireland in the 17th century.

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