as a Last Name
- 45,883
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Buckley
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the many places so named, most of which are from Old English bucc ‘buck’, ‘male deer’ or bucca ‘hegoat’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Places called Buckley and Buckleigh, in Devon, are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + clif ‘cliff’.
| 757th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 45,883
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Buckley per capita
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