Peck
The English word “Peck” has 1 meaning listed here.
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Sedgwick County and Sumner County, Kansas.
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…
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