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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Occupational surname

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : patronymic from Back 2.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name, related to Old High German bāgan ‘to fight’.
  • North German form of Backhaus.

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