Given name & surname
Downley
“hill, mountain”
Downley is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Downley goes back to Old English dūn, meaning “hill, mountain.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old English dūn (“hill, mountain”), built from English down + -leigh (“lea”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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