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The crawley Surname

crawley Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of the many places called Crawley, named with Old English crawe ‘crow’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Crowley.
  2. Probably also a reduced form of Irish McCrawley, an Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Raghallaigh ‘son of Raghallach’, also Anglicized as Magreely.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of crawley Families in the US in 1920
Number of crawley families
 102-201
 35-101
 1-34
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