Crawley Family History
Crawley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places called Crawley for example in Buckinghamshire Essex Hampshire Sussex and Oxfordshire named with Old English crāwe ‘crow’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Crowley . Irish (Louth): in Ireland this is generally the English name in 1 above but it may also have been adopted for McCrawley an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Raghallaigh ‘son of Raghallach’ also Anglicized as Magreely.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022