Bailey (surname)
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Bailey (surname)
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Bailey is an English or Scottish surname. It is first recorded in Northumberland, where it was said to have been changed from Balliol due to the unpopularity of Scottish king John Balliol. There appears to be no historical evidence for this, and Bain concludes that the earliest form was Baillie or Bailli.
The origin of the name is most likely from Anglo-Norman bailli, the equivalent of bailiff; bailie remains a regional Scottish variant of the term bailiff.
Alternatively, it has been suggested t
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Surname list
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_(surname)
date created:
2006-04-01T18:23:06Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T01:30:40Z
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