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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Old English: From the hare
  2. German: Flax
  3. 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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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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