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* As an East Central German surname, from a pet form of Peter. * As a Polish, Slovene and Czech surname, Americanized and Germanized from Pec, itself related to Peter.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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* As an East Central German surname, from a pet form of Peter. * As a Polish, Slovene and Czech surname, Americanized and Germanized from Pec, itself related to Peter.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.