The worley Surname
worley Name Meaning and History
English: most probably a habitational name, either from a variant
spelling of Wortley, or alternatively from places in Essex and
Somerset called Warley, named in Old English with wær,
wer ‘weir’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, or from Warley
in the West Midlands, which is named with Old English weorf
‘draft oxen’ + leah.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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