Atlee

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• English : topographic name for someone whose dwelling was ‘by the clearing or meadow’, Middle English atte lee. The word lea or lee (Old English lēah) originally meant ‘wood’, thence ‘clearing in a wood’, and, by the Middle English period, ‘grassy meadow’.
• This is the name of a family that was prominent in Lancaster, PA, in the 18th century.