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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Padley in Derbyshire or Padley Common in Devon. The place in Derbyshire was named probably with the Old English personal name Padda + lēah ‘glade’, ‘woodland clearing’. Alternatively, the first element may have been padde ‘toad’.

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