Given name & surname

Foxley

“wood, clearing”

Foxley is a surname from Old English.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Foxley goes back to Old English fox, meaning “wood, clearing.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Foxley comes from Old English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Old English fox.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Similar names

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Old English

Fossey

“foot”

No U.S. birth series

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Old English

Finkley

“finch”

No U.S. birth series

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Old English

Fawley

“yellow, fallow, dun”

No U.S. birth series

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Old English

Finney

“heap”

No U.S. birth series

71% boys · 29% girls

Old English

Onley

“only, alone”

No U.S. birth series

92% boys · 8% girls

Old English

Foxton

“fox” · “enclosure; settlement, town”

No U.S. birth series

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Old English

Loosley

“clearing with a pigsty”

No U.S. birth series

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Cumbric

Worsley

“a wood”

No U.S. birth series

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