The name "Starbuck," which I have always liked for the sound, is an English surname most likely deriving from a Norse phrase for "from the great river."
That name always makes me picture a roe deer buck prancing through space, which is a nice image. Anyway, I did some googlings, and it turns out that there are people here in Sweden whose surname is "Storbäck", which translates as "big creek". Don't know if that name shares the same Norse roots as Starbuck, but it sounds close enough, no?
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Date: 2012-09-23 05:12 pm (UTC)That name always makes me picture a roe deer buck prancing through space, which is a nice image. Anyway, I did some googlings, and it turns out that there are people here in Sweden whose surname is "Storbäck", which translates as "big creek". Don't know if that name shares the same Norse roots as Starbuck, but it sounds close enough, no?