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Updated January 23, 2020

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : occupational name for a baker or cook, from a shortened form of koekenbakker ‘pastrycook’.
  • Jewish (American) : respelling of Kuk.
  • Korean : variant of Kuk.
  • Chinese : variant of Ju 1.

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