Statistics and meaning of name Carley

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The Carley family name originated in Scotland, traveled to Northern Ireland, later settled in Wales and England, before coming to North America.
Carley was, in it's various forms, a well-known and respected name in Scotland and Ireland centuries ago.
The Carley name evolved originally from Mackerlie, meaning "son of Charles" of the sept Clan Tarlich under Clan Mackenzie.
A Sept is a family not having the name of the clan, but associated with the clan and entitled to wear its tartan. McCARLEY, Macarly, MacCARLEY, MacCARLIE, MacCARLY, MacKARLICH, Makarley, MacKARLIE, MacKARLY and MacKERLICH were/are a sept of Clan MacKenzie in Scotland.
"Their tartan was chiefly a green and blue plaid, cross-hatched with black, with a narrow white line running through the green both with black, with a narrow white line running through the green both ways, a narrow red line through every other square of blue."
The significance of the colors are:
Green for forest and fields, Blue of the sky and free sea, drawn through with White for purity and Red for blood and bold fighters. All denote freedom, fairness, purity, honor and courage.
Clan Motto:
"Luceo non Uro" Meaning "I shine, not burn"
Clan War Cry:
"Tullach Árd" Meaning "The high hill"
In England and Scotland, the "ey" ending indicated someone who lived on an island. The Clan originally came from one of the islands off the west coast of Scotland, probably Lewis Island.
Lewis and Harris Island (Scottish Gaelic: Leòdhas agus na Hearadh) in the Outer Hebrides make up the largest island in Scotland. It is also the largest single island of the British Isles after Great Britain and Ireland. The northern part of the island is called Lewis, the southern is Harris and both are frequently referred to as if they were separate islands.
Lewis (and the rest of the Western Isles) became part of Scotland once more in 1266 following the Treaty of Perth when it was ceded by the Kingdom of Norway. Under Scottish rule, the Lordship of the Isles emerged as the most important power in north-western Scotland by the 14th century. The Lords of the Isles were based on Islay, but controlled all of the Hebrides. They were descended from Somerled (Somhairle) Mac Gillibride, a Gall-Gaidheil lord who had held the Hebrides and West Coast two hundred years earlier. Control of Lewis itself was initially exercised by the Macleod clan but after years of feuding and open warfare between and even within local clans, the lands of Clan MacLeod were forfeited to the crown in 1597 and were awarded by King James VI to a group of Lowland colonists known as the Fife adventurers in an attempt to anglicise the islands. However the adventurers were unsuccessful and possession eventually passed to the Mackenzies of Kintail in 1609 when Coinneach, Lord MacKenzie, bought out the lowlanders. - Macdonald, D. (1978). Lewis: A History of the Island. Edinburgh: Gordon Wright
In English the name Carley is said to be locational in origin, a reduced form of Irish McCarley., meaning "a dweller at, or near a fort or flat stone."
Recorded as Carley, Corley, Kerley, this is probably an Irish surname but may possibly in some cases be English and locational from a now "lost" medieval village called "Carr-legh" or similar meaning the farm on the rock.
I found a third, similar definition - English: habitational name from the hamlet of Carley in Lifton, Devon, possibly named with Cornish ker 'fort' + Old English leah 'woodland clearing' (Kerley/Carley)
And last I found McCarley:
Irish or Scotish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhearghaile ‘son of Fearghal’, a personal name meaning ‘valiant man’.
Note: "Mac" and "Mc" are considered interchangeable and means the "son of"