English: variant of the habitational name Bletchley, from
places so named in Buckinghamshire and Shropshire. The first is named
from the Old English personal name Blæcca + leah
‘woodland clearing’; the second has the same second element combined
with a personal name Blæcca or Blecci.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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