Origin
Bacon : 1: English (of Norman origin) and French: from the Norman French personal name Bacun derived from the ancient Germanic name Bac(c)o Bahho based on the element bag ‘(to) fight (to) dispute’. The name was relatively common among the Normans in the form Bacus of which the oblique case was Bacon.2: English and French: from Middle English Old French bacun bacon ‘bacon’ (a word of ancient Germanic origin akin to Back 3) probably a metonymic occupational name for a preparer and seller of cured pork.
Back : 1: English (Devon Kent Sussex and Norfolk): from the Middle English personal name Bakke (Old English Bacca). It is of uncertain origin but may have been a byname in the same sense as 3.2: English: nickname from Middle English bakke ‘bat’ of uncertain application perhaps a nickname for a person with poor eyesight from the expression ‘blind as a bat’.3: English: from Middle English bakke ‘back’ (Old English bæc) hence a nickname for someone with a hunched back or some other noticeable peculiarity of the back or spine or a topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or ridge or at the rear of a settlement.4: Americanized form of German Bach 1 2 or 6.5: German (Bäck): variant of Beck.6: North German and Dutch: from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch back ‘trough tub bin’ hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used such artefacts.7: Dutch and North German: perhaps also a derivative of baa(c)k ‘pig; bacon ham’ hence a nickname for a butcher or a pig farmer.8: Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived at the back of somewhere such as a village a main street or a manor house from a phrase such as van de back or from Bak- ‘back’ as a bound form.9: Dutch: from the medieval personal name Ba(c)k(e) which could be a short form of several ancient Germanic personal names beginning with Bald- ‘bold’ Bade- ‘envoy’ or Bag- ‘up in arms’.10: Dutch: in some cases also a derivative of Backer ‘baker and perhaps also a nickname for someone with a hunched back as in the English name in 3 above.11: Swedish (Bäck): topographic or ornamental name from bäck ‘small stream or brook’ or a habitational name from a place called Bäck or from a placename containing the word bäck. Compare Beck.12: Swedish: variant of Backe.13: Americanized form of Norwegian Bakk (see Bakke).
Backner : 1: from Middle English *baconer *baconour ‘curer of bacon bacon-seller’. 2: perhaps also a variant of Backler.
Boczek : Polish: from boczek ‘bacon’ (from boczek ‘side’ hence the meat from the side of the animal) applied as a nickname or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a supplier of bacon.
Griebe : German: occupational name for a butcher or fat dealer from Middle High German griebe griube ‘rendered bacon pieces crackling’.
Larder : English (mainly Lincolnshire): occupational name from a simplified form of Middle English larderer a derivative of Old French lardier originally ‘tub to keep bacon in’ later ‘room in which to keep bacon and other meat’. Compare Lardner.
Pappalardo : Italian: from pappare(re) ‘to eat’ + lardo ‘lard bacon fat’ applied as a nickname for a glutton or someone who pretended to observe religious fasts but ate meat in secret.
Speck : 1: German: from Middle High German spec ‘bacon’ hence a metonymic occupational name for a seller of bacon or a pork butcher or a nickname for a fat person.2: German: topographic name from Middle High German speck(e) ‘log bridge or road’.3: German: habitational name from any of the places called Speck Specke or Specken.4: English: variant of Speake.5: English: perhaps a variant of Peck with a prosthetic S-.
Spehar : 1: Croatian and Slovenian (Špehar): occupational name derived from Middle High German spehaere (from spehen ‘to peer at’) denoting a spy or reconnoiterer operating in the former Military Frontier a borderland between the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire.2: Slovenian (Špehar): occupational name for a seller of bacon or a nickname for a dirty fellow derived from špeh ‘bacon’.
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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England
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