First name origins & meanings:
- Old English: From the hare
- German: Flax
- Old English: Rabbit archer
First name variations: Arlie, Arleigh, Harleigh, Harly, Hartley, Arley, Harlin, Harlow, Harford, Harland, Harlen, Harlenn, Harlyn, Harlynn, Harlan Last name origins & meanings:
- English (now mainly in Scotland; also West Midlands and Welsh
border): habitational name from places in Shropshire and West
Yorkshire, so named from Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of
stones’ or hara ‘hare’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. In
some cases the name may be topographic.
- Irish: when not of
English origin, this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
hEarghaile ‘descendant of Earghal’, a variant of the
personal name Fearghal without the initial F- (see
Farrell).
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