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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from Arbuckle (earlier Arnbuckle) in the parish of Airdrie, Lanarkshire, named in Gaelic as earrann buachaille ‘herdsman’s portion (of land)’.
  • Captain Matthew Arbuckle (1741–81) was a prominent VA frontiersman. The name was brought to Pittsburgh in the early 19th century by a certain Thomas Arbuckle.

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