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The caley Surname

caley Name Meaning and History

  1. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from places in Eure and Seine-Maritime, France, called Cailly, from a Romano-Gallic personal name Callius + the locative suffix -acum.
  2. English: habitational name from a minor place called Caley in the parish of Winwick, Lancashire, named with Old English ca ‘jackdaw’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.
  3. Irish: reduced and altered form of McCauley.
  4. Manx: variant of Callow.

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Distribution of caley Families in the US in 1920
Number of caley families
 43-83
 15-42
 1-14
 0
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