Peck

See also: peck

English

Etymology

• As an English surname, variant of Speake with loss of the initial letter.
• Also as an English (and sometimes Irish) surname, variant of Peak, Petch, Peach.
• As a south German surname, variant of Beck. Compare Pek, also found in Poland.
• As a Dutch and north German surname, from pek (“pitch, tar, resin”).
• As a Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene surname, Americanized and Germanized from Pek, Pék meaning "baker," itself ultimately from the German verb backen.

Proper noun

Peck

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. A city in Idaho.
   2. An unincorporated community in Sedgwick County and Sumner County, Kansas.
   3. A village in Michigan.
   4. A town in Wisconsin.

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰek/

Noun

Peck m

1. plural of Pack