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Bucklin

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant of either English Buckland or Butlin, a nickname from Old French boute-vilain ‘hustle or beat the churl’, presumably denoting a severe or bullying master.

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