Submitted NameRevisions Save Type Surname (from location) Usage English Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 1/17/2016 by LMS Edited 6/11/2016 by LMS Meaning & History Habitational name from Wakeley in Hertfordshire, named from the Old English byname Waca, meaning ‘watchful’ (see Wake) + Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’.