Boy name origins & meanings
- English : Thor's meadow
- Old English : Thor's hill
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- Northern English : habitational name, in most cases probably a variant of Thornley, although there are places called Thorley (in Hertfordshire (near Bishop’s Stortford) and in the Isle of Wight), which could have contributed to the surname; these are also named from Old English þorn ‘thorn bush’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.