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Family name origins & meanings
- German : variant of Eck 2.
- Norwegian : variant of Eike, a habitational name from any of several farms in southwestern Norway, so named from Old Norse eiki ‘oak grove’.
- Danish : topographic name for someone living near an oak tree, from ek ‘oak’, or a nickname for someone considered to share some of the oak tree’s characteristics, such as reliability and strength.