Eck Family History
Eck Name Meaning
German Dutch and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name from Middle High German ecke egge ‘corner’ German Eck(e) (Yiddish ek). This could have been the corner of two streets or in the case of the German name the corner of a field or area of land or a rocky outcrop. German: from a short form of any of various ancient Germanic compound personal names with the first element agi(n) agil ‘point edge (of a sword)’ akin to the word in 1 above. This surname (in both senses; see 1 above) is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). Swedish and Norwegian: variant of Ek .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022