Gumley
English
editEtymology
editFrom the Old English personal name Guma, a byname from guma (“man; hero”), + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”) .
Proper noun
editGumley (countable and uncountable, plural Gumleys)
- A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP681719).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Gumley is the 22402nd most common surname in England, belonging to 191 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Gumley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 101.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms suffixed with -leigh
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Leicestershire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Leicestershire, England
- en:Places in England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English