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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Thomley in Oxfordshire, so named from Old English þūma ‘thumb’ (used either as a nickname or in a transferred sense such as ‘dwarf’) + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.

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