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Riley (given name) Riley is a transferred use of an English surname derived from Old English ryge ‘rye’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. [ 1] [ 2] It is also derived from the Irish surname O'Reilly, [ 3] which originated from the Irish name Raghallach, of unknown meaning. [ 4]
Riley is a surname of English origin, as well as an Anglicized version of an Irish surname. The name has the meaning " rye clearing", or is from one of several placenames, including High Riley in Accrington, Lancashire, and in Devon. [1] [2] In the United Kingdom Census 1881, more than a third of Rileys were in Lancashire; it was most prevalent ...
French Canadian names. [edit] Given names in Quebec. [edit] In French Canada, up until the late 1960s, children of Roman Catholicreligion often were given three names at birth (usually not hyphenated): the first, Marie or Joseph, were honorific in nature to honor the mother and foster father of Jesus.
Others indicated the town or village of a family's origin, sometimes disguised as an ancestor's name as in Ó Creachmhaoil, which prefixes a toponym as though it was the name of a person. As with other culturo-linguistic groups, other types of surnames were often used as well, including trade-names such as MacGhobhainn , Mac a'Ghobhainn or Mac ...
Pages in category "French-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,691 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The -r-also began to disappear from the name on early maps, resulting in the current Acadia. Possibly derived from the Míkmaq word akatik, pronounced roughly "agadik", meaning "place", which French-speakers spelled as -cadie in place names such as Shubenacadie and Tracadie, possibly coincidentally.
Ridley (name) Ridley is a surname and given name that originated from locations in Cheshire, Kent, Northumberland, and Essex counties in England. The name derives from Old English, either hrēod ( reeds) + lēah ( wood or clearing ), or rydde ( cleared land) + lēah. [ 1][ 2][ 3]
Reilly (surname) Reilly ( / ˈraɪli /) is an Irish surname (other forms include O'Reilly ), and is derived from the Gaelic Ó Raghallaigh Sept that was based in Counties Cavan and Westmeath. Reilly is among the ten most frequently found surnames in Ireland and although they are very widespread they can be mostly found in the region of the ...