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BUCK

in Rhode Island

There are 99 people with the last name "BUCK" in Rhode Island.

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BUCK 1,369
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  1. is 1,365th most common Salazar
  2. is 1,366th most common Sposato
  3. is 1,367th most common Thomson
  4. is 1,368th most common Walmsley
  5. is 1,369th most common Buck
  6. is 1,370th most common Delaney
  7. is 1,371st most common Goldman
  8. is 1,372nd most common Hackett
  9. is 1,373rd most common Howell

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for BUCK

George, Douglas, David, Fred, Jason, John, Michelle, Alan, Brian, Cheryl

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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George BUCK, RI (6 searches)
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