Turley Family History
Turley Name Meaning
Irish (Down): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Toirdealbhaigh a patronymic from the personal name Toirdhealbhach a personal name based on an Irish form of the Old Norse name Thórr ‘Thunder’ + the Gaelic word dealbhach ‘like in the shape of’. Compare McCurley from the lenited form of the same name. Altered form of German Thurley from a personal name formed with Old High German tiuri ‘dear valuable’ + līh (?) related to Gothic leiks ‘body shape’. English (Staffordshire Worcestershire and Gloucestershire): variant of Thurlow or Trillo .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022