Where Does the O'Buckley Surname Come From?

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, O'Buckley is usually a form of Buckley. The name is usually explained as “Descendant of Buachaill ("herdsman")”.

• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• O'Buckley simply joins the particle O' to Buckley, a habit common in Irish naming.
• The same family of names includes Buckly and Bulkeley.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Buckley and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the O'Buckley family name pack.