Given name & surname
Farnley
“from the fern meadow”
Farnley is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the fern meadow.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the fern meadow.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Old English fearn (“fern”), built from English fern + -leigh (“lea”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Farnley’s family of names
In English usage, Farnley as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Farley. Farnley has a related form in Farnlea. Farnley has a related form in Farnleah.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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