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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