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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the many places called Crawley, named with Old English crāwe ‘crow’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Crowley.
  • Probably also a reduced form of Irish McCrawley, an Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Raghallaigh ‘son of Raghallach’, also Anglicized as Magreely.

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