What does last name Buckley mean?

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’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’. Places called Buckley and Buckleigh, in Devon, are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + clif ‘cliff’.

Is Buckley a Traveller name?

For this reason the name Buckley, and most other Irish names, has numerous spellings and pronunciations. These include Bucklee and Buckleigh amongst others. When Europeans began to travel to the ‘New World’ of America to start afresh, the name Buckley became global.

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