Buck Family History
Buck Name Meaning
English: nickname for a man with some fancied resemblance to a
he-goat (Old English bucc(a)) or a male deer (Old English
bucc). Old English Bucc(a) is found as a personal name,
as is Old Norse Bukkr. Names such as Walter le Buk
(Somerset 1243) are clearly nicknames.English: topographic name
for someone who lived near a prominent beech tree, such as Peter
atte Buk (Suffolk 1327), from Middle English buk ‘beech’
(from Old English boc).German: from a personal
name, a short form of Burckhard (see Burkhart).North German and Danish: nickname for a fat man, from Middle Low
German buk ‘belly’. Compare Bauch.German:
variant of Bock.German: variant of Puck in the
sense ‘defiant’, ‘spiteful’, or ‘stubborn’.German:
topographic name from a field name, Buck ‘hill’.
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Name Distribution of Buck Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Buck families
 405 - 808  136 - 404 |
 1 - 135  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Buck families
|
761 - 1,520 254 - 760 |
1 - 253 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Buck families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Buck Family Origin
Buck Immigration Information
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Buck Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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