Bucks — Family Name, Records and Arms

Many Bucks families will find their roots under Buck, the form most records use. Name scholars give the meaning as “He-goat or buck, or beech tree”.

• 541 Americans were listed as Bucks in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames.
• The extra ending in Bucks is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Buck's family.
• Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.
• The same family of names includes Bucke.

Arms associated with the name

Looking for a Bucks coat of arms? Arms were granted to families, not to surnames, and our research shows which heraldic tradition fits yours. Get the complete Bucks report, with a museum-style coat of arms.