Brackley Family History
Brackley Name Meaning
English (Buckinghamshire): habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire named Brackley from an Old English personal name Bracc(a) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’. In some instances this is a topographic for someone who lived ‘(at the) clearing in the bracken’ from Middle English braken + legh leye (Old English bracu + lēah).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022