Carley Family History
Carley Name Meaning
Reduced form of Irish McCarley.English:
habitational name from the hamlet of Carley in Lifton, Devon, possibly
named with Cornish ker ‘fort’ + Old English leah
‘woodland clearing’.Perhaps an Americanized form of German
Kehrli or Kerle (see Kerley).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Carley Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Carley families
 110 - 218  37 - 109 |
 1 - 36  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Carley families
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116 - 229 39 - 115 |
1 - 38 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Carley families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Carley Family Origin
Carley Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Carley
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Carley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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