Given name & surname · also Middle English
Eccles
“church”
Eccles is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Proto-Brythonic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Eccles goes back to Proto-Brythonic, meaning “church.”
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Where it comes from
Eccles comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Proto-Brythonic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Middle English Eccles, from Old English *Eccles; its root is Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-.
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Eccles’s family of names
Eccles may belong to the same name family as Eccless. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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