Eccles Family History
Eccles Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Eccles in Lancashire or possibly from any of several other places so named in Kent Norfolk Berwickshire and Dumfriesshire from British eglēs ‘Romano-British Christian church’ (from Latin ecclesia Greek ekklēsia ‘gathering assembly’). Such places would have been the sites of notable pre-Anglo-Saxon churches or Christian places of communal worship.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022