Buck

See also: buck and bück

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Buck

Wikipedia

For both the English surname and given name, originally a nickname for someone who resembled a buck.
Also as an English topographic surname, from Middle English buk (modern beech).
As a German and Dutch surname, shortened from Burkhard, compare Burkhart.
As a north German and Danish surname, from Middle Low German bûk (“belly”), from Old Saxon būk, from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz. Compare Bauch.
Also as a German and Dutch surname, variant of Bock.
Also as a German surname, variant of Puck.
As a Germanized Lower Sorbian surname, from buk (“beech”).

Buck

An English surname transferred from the nickname.
- 2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN‎^[1]:
  The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.
A male given name from Old English.
A German surname, a variant of Buch.
An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
A township in Hardin County, Ohio, United States.

Buck m (plural Bucks)