English: habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire, so
named from Old English hunta ‘hunter’ (perhaps a byname (see
Hunt) + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’).Scottish: habitational name from a lost place called Huntlie in
Berwickshire (Borders), with the same etymology as in 1. Huntly in
Aberdeenshire was named for a medieval Earl of Huntly (who took his
title from the Borders place); it is not the source of the
surname.
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