English: habitational name from the villages of East and West
Ilsley on the Berkshire Downs, named from Old English Hild (a
short form of various personal names containing the first element
hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’) + leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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