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Peck.

A surname.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name
  1. A surname.

  2. A place in the United States: A city in Idaho.

  3. A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Sedgwick County and Sumner County, Kansas.

  4. A place in the United States: A village in Michigan.

  5. A place in the United States: A town in Wisconsin.

Where this word comes from

* As an English surname, variant of Speake with loss of the initial letter. * Also as an English (and sometimes Irish) surname, variant of Peak, Petch, Peach. * As a south German surname, variant of Beck. Compare Pek, also found in Poland. * As a Dutch and north German surname, from pek (“pitch, tar, resin”). * As a Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene surname, Americanized and Germanized from Pek, Pék meaning "baker," itself ultimately from the German verb backen.

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