Buckby

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from the village of Long Buckby, in Northamptonshire, from the Old Norse personal name Bucca + býr (“settlement”).

Proper noun

Buckby (plural Buckbys)

1. A surname from Old Norse.

Related terms

• Long Buckby

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Buckby is the 8163^rd most common surname in England, belonging to 783 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Buckby”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 244.