FamilyEducation.com
   
 

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Mayan: nickname from Mayan pech ‘tick’.
  2. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German pech, German Pech ‘pitch’, ‘tar’, presumably a nickname for someone with exceptionally dark skin or hair, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who prepared, sold, or used pitch.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German Pech, Polish pech ‘bad luck’.
  4. Czech (also well established in German-speaking lands): from the personal name Pech, a pet form of Petr (see Peter).
  5. Catalan: variant spelling of nickname from Catalan pec ‘simple’, ‘naive’.