Carley Family History
Carley Name Meaning
Irish (Roscommon): shortened form of McCarley . English: habitational name from the hamlet of Carley in Lifton (Devon) possibly named with Cornish ker ‘fort round (enclosure)’ + legh ‘flat stone slab’. English: variant of Carlow . Americanized form of Swiss German Kehrli or of its German cognate Kerle (see Kerl ) or of some other similar (like-sounding) German surname.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022