Buckley Family History
Buckley Surname 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