Rare English name, likely a variant of Purley or Perley, meaning 'pear tree meadow'.
Pirley is a rare English name, likely a variant of Purley or Perley, meaning pear tree meadow. That agricultural and pastoral background gives it a quiet landscape imagery, with trees and open ground implied in the origin.
The name feels old-fashioned, rustic, and slightly surname-like. Pirley has the sort of soft consonant pattern that makes a place-based or nature-based name sound gentle and memorable. It belongs to the family of names that seem to carry a bit of countryside inside them.