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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Antley in Lancashire, which is named from Old English ǣmette ‘ant’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
  • English : possibly a variant of Antill, assimilated to the common English surname ending -ley.
  • Americanized spelling of Swiss Antli, from a nickname meaning ‘little duck’.

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