Buck

Where Buck comes from

* 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”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Buck
  • Old English
  • 1 syllable
Buck through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys, with 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1891
    Buck Jones born
    American actor
  3. 1910
    Peak, #365
    49 babies named Buck, its best rank.
  4. 1962
    Buck Angel born
    American FtM pornographic actor
  5. 1991
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,753.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Old English.
Namesakes
  • Buck Angel · American FtM pornographic actor, born 1962
  • Buck Jones · American actor, 1891–1942
  • Buck Baker · American racecar driver, 1919–2002
  • Buck Clarke · American jazz percussionist, 1933–1988
  • Buck Taylor · American television actor and artist, born 1938

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.