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Type Surname (from location)
Usage English
Pronounced Pron. AT-lee  [key]

Meaning & History

English: topographic name for someone whose dwelling was ‘by the clearing or meadow’, Middle English atte lee. The word lea or lee (Old English leah) originally meant ‘wood’, thence ‘clearing in a wood’, and, by the Middle English period, ‘grassy meadow’.
Added 7/13/2015 by m4yb3_daijirou
Edited 6/10/2016 by LMS