Peakman Name Meaning
From Middle English pek ‘hill peak’ + man probably signifying ‘man of or from the peak’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived at or by a peak or toponymic for someone from the Peak District in Derbys; compare Peak .
Peak Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places in different parts of England named in Old English with pēac ‘hill knoll peak’ including Peak (Hill) in Sidmouth (Devon) East and West Peek in Luffincot (Devon) a minor locality in Chiddingly (Sussex) once called Peke (now Peke's House) and the Peak District an area of rugged hills in northwest Derbyshire and adjacent counties. English: possibly a nickname from the Middle English word in 1 above denoting a stout thick-set man. English: shortened form of Peacock . Possibly also Irish: shortened form of McPeak .
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Speakman, Eakman, Peckman, Pearman, Packman, Dearman, Speckman
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts