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The gurley Surname

gurley Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Warwickshire): apparently a variant of Gourley or Gorley.
  2. Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Gourlé, from Old French gourle ‘money belt’. Its application as a surname is not clear; it may have been a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such receptacles, or perhaps a nickname for someone who was tight with his money.
  3. Alternatively, it may be an Americanized form of German Gerling or Gerlich.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of gurley Families in the US in 1920
Number of gurley families
 51-99
 18-50		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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