Given name & surname · also Old English
Worsley
“a wood”
Worsley is a surname from Old English, ultimately from Cumbric.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Worsley goes back to Proto-Brythonic *koɨd, meaning “a wood.”
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Where it comes from
Worsley comes from Old English, and ultimately from Cumbric.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Brythonic *koɨd (“a wood”), from Proto-Brythonic *gwor- (“over-, above”).
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