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manley Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from places in Devon and Cheshire, named in Old English as ‘common wood or clearing’, from (ge)m?ne ‘common’, ‘shared’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’. The surname is still chiefly found in the regions around these villages.
  2. English: nickname from Middle English mannly ‘manly’, ‘virile’, ‘brave’ (Old English mannlic, originally ‘man-like’).
  3. Irish (County Cork): Anglicized form of Ó Máinle (and often pronounced Mauly), of unexplained origin. Compare Malley.
  4. Irish (Connacht and Donegal): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maonghaile ‘descendant of Maonghal’, a personal name derived from words meaning ‘wealth’ and ‘valor’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of manley Families in the US in 1920
Number of manley families
 170-338
 57-169		 1-56
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Sarah & Shuball Manley mbrowning57194 0
P. [Patrick] D. Manley 12 Mar 1925 Dunmore PA pmanley144 3
Manley Circus northernrowe 0
Scranton, PA Manleys from Ireland p_manley 39
Dorsher Kathleen Manley Short 3
D. P. Manley Barbara Davis Hacker 3
Manley/Mannelly-County Mayo, Ireland-Cleveland, OH?? Donna Mae Mueller 4
Manley Barbara Hacker 2
Anyone recognize any of these Manleys ukpbz 2
Harold F. Manley-East Chicago, IL f1indy48 0
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