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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Distant meadow

How Popular Is The Name Farley

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places named Farley, of which there are examples in Berkshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, and Staffordshire, from Old English as fearn ‘fern’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. See also Farleigh, Fairley, Fairlie.
  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearghaile (see Farrelly).

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