Buckley Family History
Buckley Name Meaning
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’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Places called Buckley and Buckleigh in Devon are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + clif ‘cliff’. English: in Somerset perhaps alternatively a variant of the now extinct Bugley a habitational name from Bugley in Dorset or Wiltshire named from the Old English female personal name Bucge + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buachalla ‘descendant of Buachaill’ a byname meaning ‘cowherd servant’. Altered form of German of Büchle or Bücheli variants of Buechel .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
