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buck Name Meaning and History
- English: nickname for a man with some fancied resemblance to a he-goat (Old English bucc(a)) or a male deer (Old English bucc). Old English Bucc(a) is found as a personal name, as is Old Norse Bukkr. Names such as Walter le Buk (Somerset 1243) are clearly nicknames.
- English: topographic name for someone who lived near a prominent beech tree, such as Peter atte Buk (Suffolk 1327), from Middle English buk ‘beech’ (from Old English boc).
- German: from a personal name, a short form of Burckhard (see Burkhart).
- North German and Danish: nickname for a fat man, from Middle Low German buk ‘belly’. Compare Bauch.
- German: variant of Bock.
- German: variant of Puck in the sense ‘defiant’, ‘spiteful’, or ‘stubborn’.
- German: topographic name from a field name, Buck ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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