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