Beck

A surname.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.
    • As Glenn Beck was bashing Sarvis as a GPS-installing LINO on his show,,^([sic]) his muckraking journalists at TheBlaze "revealed" that Sarvis was "bankrolled" by an "Obama bundler." - 2014 March 8, John Vaught Labeaume,...
  2. An unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States, likely named after the Beck family.
  3. The River Beck, or The Beck, a minor river in south-east Greater London, England, which becomes the Pool River before joining the Ravensbourne.

Origin

* As a German surname, from Beck (“stream, brook”), see also Old Norse bekkr. Also a spelling variant of Becker (“baker”). * As a Hebrew surname, shortened from בני (B'nei) קדושים (Kdoshim, “sons of the martyrs”).

Forms

Becks

Related

Becker Beck-Ibrahim disease Beckman

Derived

Beck Hopelessness Scale Beck's scale Beckton