English (Lancashire): habitational name from Wrigley Head near
Salford, the second element of which is presumably Old English
leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’; the first may be a personal name or
topographical term from Old English wrigian ‘to strive’, ‘to
bend or turn’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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