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curley Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: reduced form of McCurley.
  2. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in northern France named Corlay, for example in Côtes-du-Nord and Indre, or possibly from Corlieu, the former name of La Rue Saint Pierre in Oise. Reaney and Wilson suggest also it may have been a variant of the nickname Curlew, after the bird, Anglo-Norman French curleu.

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The curley name in History

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Distribution of curley Families in the US in 1920
Number of curley families
 190-377
 64-189		 1-63
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