Beckley Family History
Beckley Name Meaning
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 .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022