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hurley Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: variant of Herlihy.
  2. Irish (Munster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUrthuile ‘descendant of Urthuile’.
  3. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murthuile, ‘descendant of Murthuile’ (see Murley).
  4. English: habitational name from places in Berkshire and Warwickshire so named from Old English hyrne ‘corner’, ‘bend’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The hurley name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the hurley family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of hurley Families in the US in 1920
Number of hurley families
 463-924
 155-462		 1-154
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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