Hordley
English
editEtymology
editPerhaps from Old English hord (“hoard, treasure”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to hoard + -ley (“lea”).
Proper noun
editHordley (countable and uncountable, plural Hordleys)
- A village and civil parish in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3830).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Hordley is the 51923rd most common surname in England, belonging to 52 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hordley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 201.
- 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 Shropshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Shropshire, England
- en:Places in England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English