Bisley
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English
Etymology
From the Old English personal name Bisi or Bisa + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”) .
Proper noun
Bisley (countable and uncountable, plural Bisleys)
- A village in Bisley-with-Lypiatt parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9006).
- A village and civil parish in Surrey Heath borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref SU9559). [1]
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Bisley is the 32946th most common surname in England, belonging to 106 individuals.
References
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bisley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 165.