Hockley Family History

English (Essex and London): habitational name from Hockley (Essex) or occasionally from any of various places in Warwickshire called Hockley from the Old English personal name Hocca or Old English hocc ‘hock mallow’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. variant of Oakley with prosthetic H-.

Perhaps a variant of Ockley with prosthetic H- probably a habitational name from Ockley (Surrey) or Ockley Common in Peper Harow (Surrey).

Though no definite evidence has yet been found of a medieval surname from either placename, these names probably derive from the Old English personal name Occa + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.