Beck

in Arkansas

There are 1,113 people with the last name "Beck" in Arkansas.

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Ranking in Arkansas

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Beck 274
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  1. is 270th most common Douglas
  2. is 271st most common Hopkins
  3. is 272nd most common Bradford
  4. is 273rd most common Ingram
  5. is 274th most common Beck
  6. is 275th most common Little
  7. is 276th most common Moss
  8. is 277th most common Norris
  9. is 278th most common Jennings

Similar Names and Nicknames

Becker, Buck, Beckman, Beach, Beckwith, Beckett, Beckham, Bock, Beckley, Beckner

Most Common First Names for Beck

Robert, William, David, Charles, James, Michael, Mary, Joe, Joseph, Richard



Meaning & History

English: topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from northern Middle English bekke ‘stream’ (Old Norse bekkr).

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France, for example Bec Hellouin in Eure, named with Old Norman French bec ‘stream’, from the same Old Norse root as in 1.

English: probably a nickname for someone with a prominent nose, from Middle English beke ‘beak (of a bird)’ (Old French bec).

English: metonymic occupational name for a maker, seller, or user of mattocks or pickaxes, from Old English becca. In some cases the name may represent a survival of an Old English byname derived from this word.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a baker, a cognate of Baker, from (older) South German beck, West Yiddish bek. Some Jewish bearers of the name claim that it is an acronym of Hebrew benkedoshim ‘son of martyrs’, i.e. a name taken by one whose parents had been martyred for being Jews.

North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, from Low German Beke ‘stream’. Compare the High German form Bach 1.

Scandinavian: habitational name for someone from a farmstead named Bekk, Bæk, or Bäck, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a stream.


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