Beck

in Virginia

There are 1,600 people with the last name "Beck" in Virginia.

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  1. is 436th most common Ratliff
  2. is 437th most common Schmidt
  3. is 438th most common Waters
  4. is 439th most common Bond
  5. is 440th most common Beck
  6. is 441st most common Pollard
  7. is 442nd most common Bruce
  8. is 443rd most common Lam
  9. is 444th most common Warner

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Beck

David, James, Michael, Robert, John, Mary, William, Richard, Thomas, Jeffrey



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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