Girl name origins & meanings
- English : Open-minded
Boy name origins & meanings
- English : Of the yard
How Popular Is The Name Yardley
Family name origins & meanings
- English (West Midlands) : habitational name from any of various places, for example Yardley in the West Midlands, Essex, Northamptonshire, etc., or Yarley in Somerset, named with Old English gerd, gyrd ‘pole’, ‘stick’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. The compound apparently referred to a forest where timber could be gathered.