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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : topographic name for someone who lived in a damp place, from Low German seck ‘wet land’, or a habitational name from Seck near Limburg.
  • Dutch : nickname from a Dutch spelling of French sec ‘dry’.

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