Eck Family History
Eck Name Meaning
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name from
Middle High German ecke, egge ‘corner’, German
Eck(e) (Yiddish ek). This could have been the corner of
two streets or, in the case of the German name, the corner of a field
or area of land or a rocky outcrop.German: short form of
any of the various Germanic compound personal names with a first
element agi(n), agil ‘edge’, ‘point of a sword’, akin to
the word in 1 above.Swedish: topographic or ornamental name, from
ek ‘oak’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Eck Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Eck families
 158 - 314  53 - 157 |
 1 - 52  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Eck families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Eck last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Eck Family Origin
Eck Immigration Information
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Eck Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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