Origin and popularity of the name HUNTLEY

Origin

Huntley : 1: English: habitational name from Huntley in Gloucestershire from Old English hunta ‘hunter huntsman’ (see Hunt) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Occasionally the name may arise from Huntley in Staffordshire of the same etymology but there is no medieval evidence that this gave rise to a surname.2: Scottish: habitational name from a lost place called Huntlie in Berwickshire (Borders) with the same etymology as in 1 above. Huntly in Aberdeenshire was named for a medieval Earl of Huntly who took his title from the Borders placename and is not the source of the surname.3: English: occasionally perhaps a habitational name from Huntley in Preston on Wye (Herefordshire) first recorded in 1290 as a surname (de) Huntelaw. The placename derives from Old English hunta ‘hunter huntsman’ + hlāw ‘mound hill’.

Subject to the Terms and Conditions of Ancestry

Last name frequency

Geographic distribution of the 23,167 individuals with the name HUNTLEY on Geneanet.

This last name in the family trees

See below the Geneanet members' family trees which contain the last name HUNTLEY