Bucknell Family History

English: habitational name from any of the places called Bucknell in Oxfordshire and Shropshire, Bucknall in Lincolnshire and Somerset, or Bucknowl in Dorset. 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.

Bucknowl in Dorset, recorded as Bubecnolle in 1285, is named from the Old English personal name Bubba (see Bubb) + cnoll ‘hill top’.