indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Type Surname (from location & from given name)
Usage English, Irish (Anglicized)
Other Forms FormsCrowley, McCrawley, Magreely
Meaning & History
English: habitational name from any of the many places called Crawley, named with Old English crawe ‘crow’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Crowley. Irish: Probably also a reduced form of Irish McCrawley, an Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Raghallaigh ‘son of Raghallach’, also Anglicized as Magreely.