Does anyone know anyone else with the last name of Carley? What else can you tell me about the last name?

Question

Does anyone know anyone else with the last name of Carley? What else can you tell me about the last name?

Answer 1

http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx...

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ance...

Answer 2

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/...

has 9,624 entries for the surname. Some may be duplicates. One might be your great great grandfather.

http://www.ancestry.com/facts/carley-fam...

says

Carley Name Meaning and History

Reduced form of Irish McCarley.

English: habitational name from the hamlet of Carley in Lifton, Devon, possibly named with Cornish ker ‘fort’ + Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’.

Perhaps an Americanized form of German Kehrli or Kerle (see Kerley).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

The other names are linked, if you want to explore.