Weasley meaning | Last name Weasley origin

Weasley is the variation of Westley. Parishes in counties Cambridge, Suffolk, and Salop.

Variant form of the Wesley. One who came from Westleigh or Westley, i.e., western glade, the name of several places in England.

The surname is form of Wesley. Antiquarian Ferguson derives this name from the Old Norse reslegr, miserable; but there can be no doubt whatever of its local origin, from one of the places called Westley, in counties Cambridge, Suffolk, Salop, and elsewhere; though the family of John Wesley, the founder of the ism that bears his name, was of common origin with the Wellesleys. Wellesley is indeed a recent resumption of the original name. Scholar Lower believes that Lord Mornington, father of the late Duke of Wellington, wrote himself Wesley in his earlier years.