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Meaning & Origins
Variant spelling of Leah or Lia, or occasionally possibly a shortened form of Azalea. It is sometimes a variant of the girl's name Lee, from an alternative form of the surname, pronounced as a single syllable.
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish: occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills.
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Nicknames & variations
Lee, Leo, Leah, Le, Lew, Lei, Leia, Lewie, Leya, Leea
Wrigley, Wrightson, Wrightsman, Wrights, Wrighton, Wrightington, Wrighten, Wrigh, Wrigglesworth, Wrigth
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