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Buck

in Massachusetts

There are 579 people with the last name "Buck" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Buck 1,292
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  1. is 1,288th most common Nee
  2. is 1,289th most common Goddard
  3. is 1,290th most common Guertin
  4. is 1,291st most common Molloy
  5. is 1,292nd most common Buck
  6. is 1,293rd most common Horgan
  7. is 1,294th most common Leduc
  8. is 1,295th most common Martino
  9. is 1,296th most common Waldron

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Buck

Richard, David, Robert, James, Andrew, Karen, Michael, Ronald, Stephen

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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