English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search

English

Proper noun
Riley

1. An Irish surname, variant of Reilly.
2. An English habitational surname from Ryley in Lancashire, from Old English ryge "rye" + leah "clearing, meadow".
3. given name|male, transferred use of the surnames since the nineteenth century.
4. given name|female in general use since the 1990s, also in the form Rylee.

Category:English surnames
Category:Irish surnames

sr:Riley

• 2007-12-11 23:14 - Zimbabweed - +cat

Full Revision History