Last Name BUCKLEY

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Meaning Local: Of Buckley, a parish in diocese of St. Albans; or a township (Buckeley) in county Cheshire. The Buckleys of counties Lancashire and Cheshire are nearly all Bulkeleys by descent.
Local: Derived from the manor of Bulkeley, in the County Palatine of Chester, England. A. corruption of 'Bullock-ley,' the bullock-field or pasture.
Cow herd.
User submitted: Buckley first appears as Bokkeley in 1294 Buckley Wales England, http://www.buckleysociety.org.uk/ traced via Germany to Bokn Norway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokn.
Origin English, Irish, Jewish, French, Polish, Falkland, Belgian, South african, Welsh

Rank 772 (2000 US census) 749 (1990 US census)
Count 40,706 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 85.21%, or 34686 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 10.72%, or 4364 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.46%, or 187 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.64%, or 261 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.25%, or 509 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.71%, or 696 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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