Graveley

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Gravely

Etymology

From either Old English græf (“pit, trench”) or grāf (“grove, thicket”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”) .

Proper noun

Graveley (countable and uncountable, plural Graveleys)

1. A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2464).
2. A village and civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL232278).
3. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Graveley is the 82044^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 230 individuals. Graveley is most common among White (70.0%), Hispanic/Latino (18.7%) and Black/African American (10.0%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Graveley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 78.