Family name origins & meanings
- Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhurthuille ‘descendant of Dubhurthuille’, a personal name of unexplained origin.
- English : habitational name from Durley in Hampshire or Durleigh in Somerset, both named from Old English dēor ‘deer’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, or from Durley in Wiltshire, so named from Old English dierne ‘hidden’ + lēah.