Stukeley

English

Alternative forms

• Stuckley

Etymology

Habitational surname from the villages of Great and Little Stukeley, in Cambridgeshire, from Old English styfic (“clearing in a wood”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”) .

Proper noun

Stukeley (countable and uncountable, plural Stukeleys)

1. A surname from Old English.
2. A suburb of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, usually known as Stukeley Meadows (OS grid ref TL2272).

Related terms

• Great Stukeley
• Little Stukeley
• The Stukeleys (civil parish north of Huntingdon including Great and Little Stukeley)

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Stukeley is the 55534^th most common surname in England, belonging to 14 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Stukeley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.