Etymology

Birkbeck

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Today it means: A surname from Old Norse. Full definition →

Old Norse birki
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived frombirki“birch”
  2. English todayBirkbeck

Habitational surname from a minor place in Westmorland, from Old Norse birki (“birch”) + bekkr (“stream”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.