Cranley

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Cranley is a surname of English origin, also found as the name of a few places
2. A family name of English origin, which is also used for some villages and localities
3. An English surname that also appears as the name of certain small settlements

Etymology: Cranley is a surname and place name that is, in effect, a spelling variant of Cranleigh, the name of a village in Surrey, England. The two spellings point to the same place-name tradition, and the variant is the one people tend to see in surnames and in the few other places that bear the name. Its use in a surname shows how a place name can outlive its original spelling: a family that took its name from a locality could record that name in whichever form the clerk or parish register happened to use.