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backe Name Meaning and History

  1. Scandinavian (especially Norwegian): variant spelling of Bakke.
  2. Frisian: from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Baldo, a short form of the various compound names with the first element bald ‘bold’. See Bald.
  3. German: nickname from Middle High German backe ‘cheek’, ‘buttock’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of backe Families in the US in 1920
Number of backe families
 17-32
 6-16		 1-5
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Backe - Norway>Rhinelander, WI POOKIECAT40 2
Obit: Andrew W Backe Obit_Lady 0
Backe family tree JoAnn Thompson 3
Backe, Eileen Ann (OBIT PA 10-20-2005) myobituarysite 0
John Backe Barry Luke 0
BACKE INFORMATION DAWN 1
Henry Backe Judith_Fraser 0
BACKE Ingeborg born about May 1878 in Sweden D.Smith 0
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