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speck Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from Middle High German spec ‘bacon’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a seller of bacon or a pork butcher, or a nickname for a bacon eater.
  2. German: topographic name from Middle High German speck(e) ‘log bridge’.
  3. English: variant of Speak.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The speck name in History

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Distribution of speck Families in the US in 1920
Number of speck families
 69-136
 24-68		 1-23
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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