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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places named with Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + lēah ‘(woodland) clearing’, as for example Whatley in Somerset, Whately in Warwickshire, or any of the places mentioned at Wheatley.

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