Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : Distant meadow
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from any of various places named Farley, of which there are examples in Berkshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, and Staffordshire, from Old English asfearn ‘fern’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. See alsoFarleigh, Fairley, Fairlie.
- Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearghaile (seeFarrelly).
