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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places, for example Oxley in Staffordshire and Ox Lee near Hepworth (West Yorkshire), named with Old English oxa ‘ox’ + lēah ‘(woodland) clearing’.
  • Probably a respelling of South German Öchsle (see Oechsle).

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