Speck Family History
Speck Name Meaning
German: from Middle High German spec ‘bacon’ hence a metonymic occupational name for a seller of bacon or a pork butcher or a nickname for a fat person. German: topographic name from Middle High German speck(e) ‘log bridge or road’. German: habitational name from any of the places called Speck Specke or Specken. English: variant of Speake . English: perhaps a variant of Peck with a prosthetic S-.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022