Harley Family History
Harley Name Meaning
English (now mainly in Scotland; also West Midlands and Welsh
border): habitational name from places in Shropshire and West
Yorkshire, so named from Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of
stones’ or hara ‘hare’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. In
some cases the name may be topographic.Irish: when not of
English origin, this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
hEarghaile ‘descendant of Earghal’, a variant of the
personal name Fearghal without the initial F- (see
Farrell).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Harley
Name Distribution of Harley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Harley families
 153 - 303  52 - 152 |
 1 - 51  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Harley families
|
436 - 869 146 - 435 |
1 - 145 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harley families
|
157 - 311 53 - 156 |
1 - 52 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Harley Family Origin
Harley Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Harley
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Harley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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