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burley Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Hampshire, Rutland, Shropshire, and West Yorkshire, named Burley from Old English burh ‘fortified manor’, ‘stronghold’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.
  2. Americanized spelling of Swiss German Bürli, from a diminutive of bur ‘peasant’, ‘farmer’ (see Bauer).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of burley Families in the US in 1920
Number of burley families
 75-147
 26-74		 1-25
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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