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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places named Farleigh, of which there are examples in Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Surrey, and Wiltshire, from Old English as fearn ‘fern’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. See also Farley, Fairley, Fairlie.

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