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Buck

in Iowa

There are 611 people with the last name "Buck" in Iowa.

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Buck 397
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  1. is 393rd most common Reese
  2. is 394th most common Watts
  3. is 395th most common De
  4. is 396th most common Good
  5. is 397th most common Buck
  6. is 398th most common Cummings
  7. is 399th most common Austin
  8. is 400th most common Berger
  9. is 401st most common Jansen

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Buck

Robert, John, James, David, William, Brenda, Daniel, Kenneth, Martha, Mary

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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Robert Buck, IA (9 searches)
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