The peck Surname
peck Name Meaning and History
- English (mainly East Anglia): metonymic occupational name for someone who dealt in weights and measures, for example a grain factor, from Middle English pekke ‘peck’ (an old measure of dry goods equivalent to eight quarts or a quarter of a bushel).
- English: variant of Peak 1.
- Irish: variant of Peak 2.
- South German: variant of Beck.
- North German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for someone who prepared or sold pitch, from Middle Low German pek, Middle Dutch pec, pic.
- Dutch: from Middle Dutch pec, pick ‘desperate straits’, hence a nickname for a person in difficult circumstances or perhaps for someone with a gloomy disposition.
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| Peck family of England and Mass. 1600s |
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| Levi (Lewis?) Peck of Danbury,Ct b. 1/27/1707 d.1815 | Elizabeth Peck Freedman | 7 |
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| Wm. Peck, Orange County-NYC-Brooklyn |
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| PECK family of Raymond, WA |
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