# Speke

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /spiːk/ · frequency rank #78,146

## Definitions
1. A suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ4383).
2. A surname.

## Etymology
* As an English surname, variant of Speak, itself a variant of Speake, all related to the placename below.
* The placename is either from Old English spec (“brushwood”) or the obsolete noun speight (“woodpecker”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/speke