Peck

1. A surname.
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Etymology

* As an English surname, variant of Speake with loss of the initial letter.
* Also as an English (and sometimes Irish) surname, variant of Peak, Petch, Peach.
* As a south German surname, variant of Beck. Compare Pek, also found in Poland.
* As a Dutch and north German surname, from pek (“pitch, tar, resin”).
* As a Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene surname, Americanized and Germanized from Pek, Pék meaning "baker," itself ultimately from the German verb backen.