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Transferred use of the surname Starbuck.Other sources say that a starbuck was someone who gathered willow-twigs and reed along the riverside for the weaving of baskets. Mostly, these people lived along those riversides as well. As such, it could very well be that these people were referred to as people from the (great) river, which would have been stor bokki during the time where the Vikings came to England. Over the years, language sound shifts probably resulted in them being called starbecks and finally starbucks.In literature, Starbuck was the name of the chief mate in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851). Also, in popular culture, Starbuck was the callsign of a character in the TV series Battlestar Galactica. The character was male in the original series from 1978, but female in the re-imagined series from 2004.A notable bearer of this name in real life is Gabriel Starbuck Brown (b. 1989), one of the people featured in the American reality television series Alaskan Bush People (2014).