English: topographic name from Middle English hauk,
hauek ‘hawk’ + ley(e) ‘open country’, ‘grassland’,
‘field’, or a habitational name from Hawkesley Hall in King’s Norton,
Worcestershire, named from the Old English personal name Heafoc
or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’, ‘clearing’ + leah
‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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