Frequency: (108)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: habitational name from any of various places named Farleigh, of which there are examples in Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Surrey, and Wiltshire, from Old English as fearn ‘fern’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. See also Farley, Fairley, Fairlie.
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