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English: variant of Speake with loss of initial S- (or perhaps vice versa). English: variant of Peak . English: perhaps occasionally a variant of Petch itself a variant of Peach . Irish: variant of Peak 6. South German: variant of Beck (please see the BECK project). It is also found in Poland (compare Pek ). North German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for someone who prepared or sold pitch from Middle Low German pek Middle Dutch pec pic.7: Americanized or Germanized form of Hungarian Pék Croatian and Slovenian Pek 1 ‘baker’.8: Americanized form of Czech or Polish Pek
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022