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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Healey near Manchester, named with Old English hēah ‘high’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. There are various other places in northern England, for example in Northumberland and Yorkshire, with the same name and etymology, and they may also have contributed to the surname.
  • Variant of Irish Healy.

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