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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Böckmann) : topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood, from Middle Low German boke, böke ‘beech tree’ + man ‘man’, or a habitational name for someone from any of the places named with this word: Böck, Böcke, or Böcken.

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