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farley Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of various places named Farley, of which there are examples in Berkshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, and Staffordshire, from Old English as fearn ‘fern’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’. See also Farleigh, Fairley, Fairlie.
  2. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearghaile (see Farrelly).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of farley Families in the US in 1920
Number of farley families
 408-813
 137-407		 1-136
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