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Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of Norwegian Bekkum, from the dative plural case of bekk ‘stream’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived ‘by the streams’.
  • Possibly a variant spelling of English Beckham.

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