Last name: RALEIGH
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RALEIGH : This last name is indexed 37,035 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
RALEIGH : 1: English: habitational name from Raleigh (House) in Pilton (Devon) recorded as Radeleia in 1086 and Rawlegh in 1535. The placename probably derives from Old English rǣge ‘roe deer’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.2: Irish: variant of Riley.
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