Mackley
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Frequency: (428)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: habitational name from Mackley in Derbyshire, which may have been named in Old English as ‘Macca's forest’, from an unattested personal name + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, ‘glade’.
2. Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Donnshleibhe ‘son of Donnshleibhe’, a personal name literally meaning ‘brown hill’.
3. Probably also an Americanized form of German Mä(g)gli (see Magley).
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