Beachley
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Beachley
Frequency: (139)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: habitational name from Beachley in Gloucestershire, recorded in the 12th century as Beteslega ‘woodland clearing of a man called Betti’.
2. Americanized form of German Buechler or Büchle or of the Swiss form Büchli (see Buechel).
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