What We Know About the Brickley Surname

The Brickley last name has English roots. The usual explanation, from Elsdon Smith, is “dweller at, or on, the meadow newly broken up for cultivation”.

Brickley coat of arms

Sharing the Brickley name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Surname origin

It is a topographic name, describing where an early bearer lived.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Brickley with 2,139 bearers, at rank 14,067. It sits among the 25,000 most common last names in the country. Names that sound alike, such as Berkeley, are easily confused in old records. Want more than a summary? See the Brickley family name pack.