English: habitational name from the cathedral city on an island
in the fens north of Cambridge. It is so named from Old English
?l ‘eel’ + ge ‘district’.
Probably also an
Americanized form of German Eley.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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