To utilize subfolders with any name in an Arduino library, you must use the 1.5 library specificationthe 1.5 library specification.
In libraries folder in your sketch folder, create a folder for the library. In this folder create a src subfolder and put the library source code into that subfolder. Then create a library.properties filelibrary.properties file in the root folder of the library with some dummy information. Fill the includes key with the main .h file of the library.
Documents/
Arduino/
libraries/
FooLib/
src/
subfoldername/
header.h
some.h
some.cpp
foolib.h
foolib.cpp
library.properties
In code then use in #include the path with src folder as starting location.
#include <subfoldername/header.h>