The hockley Surname
hockley Name Meaning and History
English (mainly Essex): habitational name from any of various
places, for example in Essex and West Midlands. The former is so
called from the Old English personal name Hocca or hocc
‘mallow’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’; the latter from the
personal name Hucca + hlaw ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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