Keighley
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Recorded as Middle English Chichelai in the Domesday Book, the town is named with the Old English personal name Cyhha + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”) .
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Keighley (countable and uncountable, plural Keighleys)
- A town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0641). [1]
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Keighley is the 77012th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 249 individuals. Keighley is most common among White (94.78%) individuals.
References
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Keighley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 289.
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- en:Towns in West Yorkshire, England
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