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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a pet form of the personal name Burkhart.
  • German : descriptive nickname for a person with a hunchback.
  • Possibly a German metonymic occupational name for a metalworker, from Middle High German buckel ‘(embossed) buckle on a shield’.
  • English : variant spelling of Buckle.

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