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The beckett Surname

beckett Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from a diminutive of Beck 3 or, more rarely, of Beck 1.
  2. English: habitational name from places called Beckett in Berkshire and Devon. The former is named with Old English beo ‘bee’ + cot ‘cottage’, ‘shelter’; the latter has as its first element the Old English personal name Bicca. This surname is also found in Ireland.
  3. Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Béquet (see Bequette).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of beckett Families in the US in 1920
Number of beckett families
 90-178
 31-89		 1-30
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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