Last name origins & meanings:
- English: from Middle English bakehous ‘bakehouse’ (Old
English bæchūs), hence a topographic name for someone who
lived or worked in a bakery.
- Lithuanian (Bačkus): from Lithuanian bačka
‘barrel’, ‘cask’, hence either a nickname for a short, fat man or an
occupational name for a cooper.
- Among the original settlers of Norwich (later Franklin), CT, in
1660 was a certain Stephen Backus.
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