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Buck

in Kentucky

There are 416 people with the last name "Buck" in Kentucky.

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Ranking in Kentucky

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Buck 1,242
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  1. is 1,238th most common Clifford
  2. is 1,239th most common Stovall
  3. is 1,240th most common Whittaker
  4. is 1,241st most common Rudolph
  5. is 1,242nd most common Buck
  6. is 1,243rd most common Haggard
  7. is 1,244th most common Hillard
  8. is 1,245th most common Ousley
  9. is 1,246th most common Yoder

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Buck

James, William, David, Paul, Charles, Elizabeth, Andrew, Joshua, Linda, Richard

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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