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The beckley Surname

beckley Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of the various places, in Kent, Oxfordshire, and Sussex, named Beckley, from the Old English byname Becca (see Beck 4) + Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’.
  2. Altered spelling of the South German and Swiss topographic names Bächle, Bächli (see Bach 1).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of beckley Families in the US in 1920
Number of beckley families
 61-119
 21-60		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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