Iley

Family name origins & meanings

• English : habitational name from Illey in Worcestershire or from Brent or Monks Eleigh in Suffolk; the first is probably named with an Old English personal name Illa + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’; the two last are from an unattested Old English personal name Illa + lēah.
• Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Ille or Illig.