English: habitational name from any of various places named with
Old English hw?te ‘wheat’ + leah ‘(woodland)
clearing’, as for example Whatley in Somerset, Whately in
Warwickshire, or any of the places mentioned at Wheatley.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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