The healey Surname
healey Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from Healey near Manchester, named with Old English heah ‘high’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. There are various other places in northern England, for example in Northumberland and Yorkshire, with the same name and etymology, and they may also have contributed to the surname.
- Variant of Irish Healy.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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