Cleveley

English

Alternative forms

• Cleverly

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Enstone, Oxfordshire, from Old English clif (“cliff; river-bank”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to cliff +‎ -ley (“lea”).

Proper noun

Cleveley (plural Cleveleys)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Cleveley is the 19437^th most common surname in England, belonging to 237 individuals.

References

• Survey of English Place-Names

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cleveley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345.
• Forebears