English: habitational name from Charley in Leicestershire,
named with Celtic carn ‘cairn’, ‘pile of stones’ + Old English
leah ‘woodland clearing’.French (Burgundy): from
a pet form of Charles.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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