Last name: CARLEY
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CARLEY : This last name is indexed 19,644 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CARLEY : 1: Irish (Roscommon): shortened form of McCarley.2: English: habitational name from the hamlet of Carley in Lifton (Devon) possibly named with Cornish ker ‘fort round (enclosure)’ + legh ‘flat stone slab’.3: English: variant of Carlow.4: Americanized form of Swiss German Kehrli or of its German cognate Kerle (see Kerl) or of some other similar (like-sounding) German surname.
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