Coley Family History
Coley Name Meaning
English (Midlands): nickname for a swarthy person from Middle English coly ‘coaly coal-black’. The original short vowel is retained in the 16th century colly ‘dirtied with coal and soot’. Alternatively a variant of Cowley . Probably an Americanized form of Swiss German Kohli or Kohler .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022