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becker Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch, German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a baker of bread, or brick and tiles, from backen ‘to bake’.
  2. English: occupational name for a maker or user of mattocks or pickaxes, from an agent derivative of Old English becca ‘mattock’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name History and Origin for  becker

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becker
  1. Dutch, German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a baker of bread, or brick and tiles, from backen ‘to bake’.
  2. English: occupational name for a maker or user of mattocks or pickaxes, from an agent derivative of Old English becca ‘mattock’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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