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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places called Bowley, near Leominster in Herefordshire and in Devon. The first is named with Old English bula ‘bull’, perhaps a byname (see Bull) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The second is from Old English boga ‘bow’, ‘river bend’ + lēah.

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