English: habitational name from Illey in Worcestershire or from
Brent or Monks Eleigh in Suffolk; the first is probably named with an
Old English personal name Illa + Old English leah
‘woodland clearing’; the two last are from an unattested Old English
personal name Illa + leah. RW.Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Ille or
Illig.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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