The kingsley Surname
kingsley Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of the places so called, in
Cheshire, Hampshire, and Staffordshire. These are all named in Old
English as cyningesleah ‘the woodland clearing (Old English
leah) of the king (cyning)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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