Släkthistoria för Beckley
Beckley Vad efternamn betyder
English: habitational name from any of the places so named in Oxfordshire and Sussex from the Old English byname Becca (see Beck ) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’. English: variant of Bickley. Americanized form of South German Bächle (see Baechle) and of its Swiss German cognate Bächli. Americanized form of South German Böckle (see Bock) and of its Swiss German cognate Böckli and possibly also of North German Böckler an occupational name for a buckle maker or carrier Middle Low German bokeler. Compare Bakley and Begley.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
