Hamley

[ˈhæmli]

Background Story

Hamley is an English surname. The sources checked record it only as a surname and in place names, and give no meaning for it.

English surname from a place name meaning "hare land" in Old English

English surname derived from the given name Harry

An anglicised form of the Irish surnames Ó hÉilidhe and Ó hÉalaighthe, or an English surname from places named Healey

Derived from the Old English meaning 'settlement on a hill'

English surname used as a given name; no meaning documented in the sources checked

From an English surname and place name meaning "ash tree town" in Old English

Recorded as a masculine given name in ecclesiastical history

A variation of the name Bartholomew, which means 'son of the furrow'.

From a British occupational surname meaning "(female) baker"