Buckby
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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.