Hartley is from the Old English *heorot* (stag, hart) + *lēah* (meadow, clearing). **A modern American baby name in the broader vintage-surname aesthetic**. **Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)** — male; English poet; son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (author of *The Rime of the Ancient Mariner*); the title character of his father's 1802 poem *Frost at Midnight*; Hartley himself published poetry and essays that influenced the Victorian Romantic tradition. **Hartley Sawyer (born 1985)** — male; American actor; The Flash on The CW. **Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)** — male; American modernist painter; one of the foundational figures of American Modernism; his portraits and landscapes of New England and New Mexico hang at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection at Bates College in Maine is the largest single repository of his work. **L.P. Hartley (1895-1972)** — male; English novelist; *The Go-Between* (1953) — Hawthornden Prize-winning novel; *Eustace and Hilda* trilogy. **Justice Hartley** — *Lost* recurring character James "Sawyer" Ford's middle name. **Hartley House** — historic British landmark.
Featured throughout English Romantic literature and American Modernism.
Hartley reduces to six.