Hurley Family History
Hurley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Hurley (Somerset Warwickshire Berkshire). The Warwickshire and Berkshire placenames derive from Old English hyrne ‘angle corner’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Somerset placename for a minor place near Crowcombe may have the same origin but this cannot be certain due to a lack of medieval forms. Irish (Munster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUrthuile ‘descendant of Urthuile’ a personal name possibly meaning ‘great flood’. Irish: variant of Herlihy . Irish: variant of Murley
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022