Burley Family History
Burley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Burley for example in Hampshire Rutland Shropshire and Yorkshire from Old English burh ‘fortified manor stronghold’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. English: variant of Birley . Americanized form of Swiss German Bürli: from a diminutive of būr ‘peasant farmer’ (see Bauer ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022