Bek Family History
Bek Surname Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic) and South German: variant of Beck ‘baker’. Croatian and Slovenian: occupational name for a baker from old South German beck ‘baker’ (see Beck compare Pek).
Czech: from a pet form of a personal name beginning with Be- such as Benedikt (see Benedict) or a surname of German origin (see 1 above).
Polish: nickname derived from bekać ‘to burp’, beczeć ‘to bleat’, ‘to sing sharp’, ‘to cry loudly’ or an adaptation of German Beck. This surname is also found among Rusyns (Lemkos).
Dutch: nickname for someone with a particular bek ‘mouth, jaw’. Dutch: topographic name for someone living near a beek ‘stream’. Compare Beck and Beek.
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 白 (see Bai) and 麥 (see Mai) based on their Hokkien or Teochew pronunciations.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022