The turley Surname
turley Name Meaning and History
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Toirdealbhaigh, a patronymic from the personal name Toirdhealbhach, a personal name meaning ‘like Thor’ or ‘like thunder’, composed of the Old Norse name þórr (see Thor) + Gaelic dealbhach ‘like’, ‘in the shape of’. Compare McCurley, from the lenited form.
- Altered spelling of German Thurley, from a personal name formed with Old High German tiuri ‘dear’, ‘valuable’ + lih (?), related to Gothic leiks ‘body’, ‘shape’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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