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Type Surname (from location)
Usage English
Pronounced Pron. MAHR-lee

Meaning & History

Originally denoted a person who hailed from one of the various places in Britain called Marley, ultimately meaning either "pleasant wood", "boundary wood" or "marten wood" in Old English. One of the main characters in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843) bears this surname.