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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, so named from the Old English male personal name Em(m)a (which has nothing to do with the modern girl’s name) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
  • Altered spelling of German Emler or Emele (see Emel).

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