The onley Surname
onley Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from Onley or Olney in Northamptonshire,
possibly also from Onneley in Staffordshire. Like Olney, Onley was
named in Old English as ‘lonely (ana, from an
‘one’) glade (leah)’; Onneley has the same second element,
and possibly the same initial one, though this may alternatively have
been a personal name, Onna.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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