Last name origins & meanings:
- Dutch, German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational
name for a baker of bread, or brick and tiles, from backen ‘to
bake’.
- English: occupational name for a maker or user of
mattocks or pickaxes, from an agent derivative of Old English
becca ‘mattock’.
- This name is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland in the mid
17th century, but it was also brought independently to North America
by many other bearers.
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