Last name origins & meanings:
- Dutch: from Middle Dutch bac ‘bucket’, ‘bin’, ‘beaker’,
hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such
vessels.
- Dutch: nickname for someone with a peculiarity of the
mouth, jaw, or cheek, from Dutch bakke ‘cheek’,
‘side’.
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous
farmsteads named with Old Norse bakki ‘hillside’,
‘bank’.
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