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Buck

in California

There are 2,613 people with the last name "Buck" in California.

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Ranking in California

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Buck 1,060
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  1. is 1,056th most common Gaines
  2. is 1,057th most common Knapp
  3. is 1,058th most common Holguin
  4. is 1,059th most common Tom
  5. is 1,060th most common Buck
  6. is 1,061st most common Cazares
  7. is 1,062nd most common Arce
  8. is 1,063rd most common Bass
  9. is 1,064th most common Dalton

Similar Names and Nicknames

Beck, Buckley, Buckner, Buckingham, Busch, Bock, Buckman, Buckles, Back, Buckland

Most Common First Names for Buck

Robert, David, John, Richard, James, Michael, Steven, Linda, William, Barbara

Meaning & 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 bōc).

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 būk ‘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’.

FOREBEARS Emanuel Buck came from England to Plymouth Colony in the 1640s and in 1647 settled in Wethersfield, CT.

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