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carley Name Meaning and History

  1. Reduced form of Irish McCarley.
  2. English: habitational name from the hamlet of Carley in Lifton, Devon, possibly named with Cornish ker ‘fort’ + Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’.
  3. Perhaps an Americanized form of German Kehrli or Kerle (see Kerley).

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Distribution of carley Families in the US in 1920
Number of carley families
 110-218
 37-109
 1-36
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