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buckley Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of the many places so named, most of which are from Old English bucc ‘buck’, ‘male deer’ or bucca ‘he-goat’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’. Places called Buckley and Buckleigh, in Devon, are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + clif ‘cliff’.
  2. English: possibly a variant of Bulkley, from the local pronunciation.
  3. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buachalla ‘descendant of Buachaill’, a byname meaning ‘cowherd’, ‘servant’, ‘boy’.
  4. Altered spelling of German Büchler (see Buechler), or of Büchle, a variant of Buechel.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of buckley Families in the US in 1920
Number of buckley families
 631-1260
 211-630		 1-210
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