The knightly Surname
knightly Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from Knightley in Staffordshire, named
in Old English as ‘the wood or clearing of the retainers’, from
cnihta, genitive plural of cnihta ‘servant’,
‘retainer’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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