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peck Name Meaning and History

  1. 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).
  2. English: variant of Peak 1.
  3. Irish: variant of Peak 2.
  4. South German: variant of Beck.
  5. North German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for someone who prepared or sold pitch, from Middle Low German pek, Middle Dutch pec, pic.
  6. 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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of peck Families in the US in 1920
Number of peck families
 631-1259
 211-630		 1-210
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