Hockley Family History
Hockley Name Meaning
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 which probably derive from the Old English personal name Occa + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022