Beck

in New Mexico

There are 395 people with the last name "Beck" in New Mexico.

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Ranking in New Mexico

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Beck 408
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  1. is 404th most common Keller
  2. is 405th most common Little
  3. is 406th most common Mccoy
  4. is 407th most common Medrano
  5. is 408th most common Beck
  6. is 409th most common Schneider
  7. is 410th most common Crespin
  8. is 411th most common Reeves
  9. is 412th most common Mirabal

Similar Names and Nicknames

Becker, Buck, Beckman, Beach, Beckwith, Beckett, Beckham, Bock, Beckley, Beckner

Most Common First Names for Beck

Robert, David, James, Bryan, Jerry, William, Richard, Charles, Don, John



Meaning & History

English: topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from northern Middle English bekke ‘stream’ (Old Norse bekkr).

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France, for example Bec Hellouin in Eure, named with Old Norman French bec ‘stream’, from the same Old Norse root as in 1.

English: probably a nickname for someone with a prominent nose, from Middle English beke ‘beak (of a bird)’ (Old French bec).

English: metonymic occupational name for a maker, seller, or user of mattocks or pickaxes, from Old English becca. In some cases the name may represent a survival of an Old English byname derived from this word.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a baker, a cognate of Baker, from (older) South German beck, West Yiddish bek. Some Jewish bearers of the name claim that it is an acronym of Hebrew benkedoshim ‘son of martyrs’, i.e. a name taken by one whose parents had been martyred for being Jews.

North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, from Low German Beke ‘stream’. Compare the High German form Bach 1.

Scandinavian: habitational name for someone from a farmstead named Bekk, Bæk, or Bäck, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a stream.


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