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hadley Name Meaning and History

English (chiefly West Midlands): habitational name from either of two places named Hadley, in Worcestershire and Shropshire, or from either of two places named Hadleigh, in Essex and Suffolk. The first is named from the Old English personal name Hadda + leah ‘wood’, ‘(woodland) clearing’; the other three are from Old English h?ð ‘heathland’, ‘heather’ + leah.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hadley Families in the US in 1920
Number of hadley families
 127-251
 43-126
 1-42
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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