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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, near Halifax, so named from a British ecclēsia name meaning ‘church’ (see Eccles) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The surname is common in West Yorkshire.
  • Americanized spelling of the German family name Öchsle, a diminutive of Ochs.

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