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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name for someone from Weoley Castle in West Midlands (formerly in Worcestershire), named with Old English wēoh ‘(pre-Christian) temple’ + lēah ‘(woodland) clearing’, or from Weeley in Essex, which is named with Old English wilig ‘willow’ + lēah.

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