English (Lancashire): habitational name from a lost place in the
parish of Leigh, near Wigan, probably so named from the genitive case
of the Old English personal name Ecgheard (see Eckert)
or Ecghere + Old English leah ‘woodland
clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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