Last name origins & meanings:
- Mayan: nickname from Mayan pech ‘tick’.
- 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.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German Pech, Polish pech ‘bad luck’.
- Czech (also well established in German-speaking lands): from the
personal name Pech, a pet form of Petr (see
Peter).
- Catalan: variant spelling of nickname from
Catalan pec ‘simple’, ‘naive’.
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