Yaxley

English

Etymology

From Old English ġēac (“cuckoo”) + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

Proper noun

Yaxley (countable and uncountable, plural Yaxleys)

1. A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL1892).
2. A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1273).
3. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Yaxley is the 5299^th most common surname in England, belonging to 1348 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Yaxley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.