522 Global BACKE Family Members

BACKE Family History

Recorded as Back, Backe, Backes, Backs, Bax and Backman, this is an English surname, but one of some complexity. It may be occupational and describe a maker of pies and sweetmeats. If so the derivation is from the pre 7th century Olde English word "baec" meaning to bake, and this certainly applies to Walter Bakman, in the Hundred Rolls of Cambridge in 1279. However it is also possible that it derives from the popular Olde English male personal name "Bacca". Here the name does mean back or sometimes chin, and was probably originally a nickname for a person with a strong back or a prominent chin, or even somebody who was regarded as a hard worker.