Akeley
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Frequency: (129)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. North German form of Ageley, from Old High German agaleia ‘columbine’, a plant which was used medicinally in the Middle Ages, or from a female personal name of the same derivation.
2. Possibly English: habitational name from Akely in Buckinghamshire, named from Old English ac ‘oak’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
GIVEN NAME German 4%. Kurt.
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