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Bucknell Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places called Bucknell, in
Oxfordshire and Shropshire, or Bucknall, in Lincolnshire and
Somerset. These are all named with the Old English byname Bucca
(see Buck) or Old English bucca ‘he-goat’ (with genitive
-n) + hyll ‘hill’ in the first two examples or
healh ‘nook’, ‘hollow’ in the latter two.
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Name Distribution of Bucknell Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bucknell families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bucknell families
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109 - 216 37 - 108 |
1 - 36 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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