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Bickley
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Origin Of The Surname Bickley
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Meaning Of The Surname Bickley
From the Town by the Woodpecker Clearing
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Interesting
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Bickley
Bickley is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English word ‘bicca’ which meant woodpecker and ‘leah’ which meant ‘clearing’. Places with this name would have had a nearby clearing which woodpeckers frequented. |
Bickley Statistics
Bickley is the number 1738 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,183 share the surname Bickley in the UK.
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