The burnley Surname
burnley Name Meaning and History
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Burnley
in Lancashire, so named with the Old English river name Brun
(from brun ‘brown’ or burna ‘stream’) +
leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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