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First Names: Alphabetically; By Origin

Surnames: Alphabetically; By Origin

The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names

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First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.

Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.

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Last name origins & meanings:

Danish and Norwegian: unexplained.
German: metonymic occupational name for a pitch gatherer and/or tar maker, from Middle High German pech ‘pitch’, ‘tar’ (see Pech).

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