Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : from Middle Dutch bac ‘bucket’, ‘bin’, ‘beaker’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such vessels.
- Dutch : nickname for someone with a peculiarity of the mouth, jaw, or cheek, from Dutch bakke ‘cheek’, ‘side’.
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named with Old Norse bakki ‘hillside’, ‘bank’.