Submitted NameRevisions Save Type Surname (from location) Usage English Pronounced Pron. BEKS-lee [key] Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 4/18/2014 by AustraLiana Edited 6/10/2016 by LMS Meaning & History Habitational name from Bexley (now Bexleyheath in Greater London), which was named from Old English byxe ‘box tree’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.