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The exley Surname

exley Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, near Halifax, so named from a British ecclesia name meaning ‘church’ (see Eccles) + Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’. The surname is common in West Yorkshire.
  2. Americanized spelling of the German family name Öchsle, a diminutive of Ochs.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of exley Families in the US in 1920
Number of exley families
 17-32
 6-16		 1-5
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