Buckby
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Habitational surname from the village of Long Buckby, in Northamptonshire, from the Old Norse personal name Bucca + býr (“settlement”).
Proper noun
[edit]Buckby (plural Buckbys)
- A surname from Old Norse.
Related terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Buckby is the 8163rd most common surname in England, belonging to 783 individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Buckby”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 244.