Fawley
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (surname): Faley
Etymology
[edit]From either Old English fealu (“yellow, fallow, dun”) or fealh (“fallow land”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to fallow + -ley (“lea”).
Proper noun
[edit]Fawley (countable and uncountable, plural Fawleys)
- A small village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU3981). [1]
- A small village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Wycombe district (OS grid ref SU7586). [2]
- A village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4503). [3]
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Fawley is the 21660th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1203 individuals. Fawley is most common among White (96.84%) individuals.
References
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fawley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 557.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms suffixed with -leigh
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Berkshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Berkshire, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in Buckinghamshire, England
- en:Places in Buckinghamshire, England
- en:Villages in Hampshire, England
- en:Places in Hampshire, England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English