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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for someone thought to resemble a curlew in some way, Anglo-Norman French curleu, Old French corlieu. The spelling Corlew is recorded in Sussex in 1327, but now appears to have died out in the British Isles, replaced by the modern form Curlew.

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