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