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Last name origins & meanings:

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