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Buck

in Maine

There are 570 people with the last name "Buck" in Maine.

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Ranking in Maine

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Buck 315
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  1. is 311th most common Dumont
  2. is 312th most common Hardy
  3. is 313th most common Veilleux
  4. is 314th most common Morton
  5. is 315th most common Buck
  6. is 316th most common Chandler
  7. is 317th most common Fitzgerald
  8. is 318th most common Foley
  9. is 319th most common Turcotte

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Buck

Michael, David, Robert, Mary, Richard, John, Patricia, Alexander, Daniel

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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