Buckhalter Family History
Buckhalter Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Buchhalter: topographic name for someone who lived on a beech-covered slope from Middle High German buoche ‘beech tree’ + halde ‘slope’ + the suffix -er for an inhabitant. Americanized form of Jewish Buchhalter ‘bookkeeper’ (see Buchalter ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022