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begley Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish (Donegal): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beaglaoich ‘descendant of Beaglaoch’, a personal name composed of the elements beag ‘small’ + laoch ‘hero’.
  2. Possibly an altered spelling of German Böckle or Swiss Böckli, variants of Bock or of Böckler, an occupational name for a buckle maker or carrier, Middle Low German bokeler.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of begley Families in the US in 1920
Number of begley families
 89-176
 30-88		 1-29
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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