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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of several minor places in Lincolnshire and Shropshire (Apley) or the Isle of Wight and Somerset (Appley), named with Old English æppel ‘apple’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

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