Frequency: (539)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse egg ‘ridge’, ‘edge’.
2. German: variant of Eck.
GIVEN NAMES: Scandinavian 6%. Karsten (2), Iver, Nels, Ordell.
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