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