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First name origins & meanings:

1. English: Field of birds
2. Old English: Dweller by the deer meadow

First name variations: Raileigh, Railey, Raley, Rawleigh, Rawley, Rawley, Rawly, Rawls, Leigh, Lee

Last name origins & meanings:

1. English: habitational name from Raleigh in Devon, recorded in Domesday Book as Radeleia, from Old English rēad ‘red’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
2. The English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) was born in Hayes Barton, Devon, into a family of Devon gentry. He was related to most of the West Country’s important families, including that of Sir Francis Drake. His half-brother was the explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert. In 1578 Raleigh was granted a patent to explore and colonize “unknown lands” in America.

This name appears in the following lists: Cities, Pioneers/Explorers