The marley Surname
marley Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of the various places so
called, for example in Devon, Kent, and West Yorkshire. According to
Ekwall, the first element of these place names is respectively Old
English (ge)m?re ‘boundary’, myrig ‘pleasant’, and
mearð ‘(pine) marten’. The second element in each case is
Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’. This surname was taken
to Ireland by a Northumbrian family who settled there in the 17th
century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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