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Buck

in Pennsylvania

There are 2,140 people with the last name "Buck" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Buck 420
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  1. is 416th most common Irwin
  2. is 417th most common Fowler
  3. is 418th most common Marsh
  4. is 419th most common Ott
  5. is 420th most common Buck
  6. is 421st most common Conway
  7. is 422nd most common Lynn
  8. is 423rd most common Reyes
  9. is 424th most common Franklin

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Buck

Robert, William, James, Thomas, Richard, David, John, Michael, Joseph, Charles

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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