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Buck

in Connecticut

There are 358 people with the last name "Buck" in Connecticut.

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Ranking in Connecticut

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Buck 952
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  1. is 948th most common Violette
  2. is 949th most common Mcgovern
  3. is 950th most common Pires
  4. is 951st most common Swan
  5. is 952nd most common Buck
  6. is 953rd most common Echevarria
  7. is 954th most common Keegan
  8. is 955th most common Rivers
  9. is 956th most common Christie

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Buck

Robert, Charles, Karen, James, Kenneth, David, George, Jennifer, John, Peter

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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