The chipley Surname
chipley Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from places called Chipley, in Somerset
and Devon, or from Chipley Abbey in Suffolk, each having as the second
element Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’. In the case of
Chipley, Somerset, the first element was probably the Old English
personal name Cippa, while Chipley in Devon is named with Old
English ceap ‘price’, ‘purchase’, and the Suffolk place name
derives from Old English cipp ‘log’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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