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blocker Name Meaning and History

  1. German (Blöcker): occupational name for a jailer (see Block 1).
  2. English: occupational name for a shoemaker or bookbinder (see Block); a person called Henry le Blocker is recorded in York in 1212. However, in some cases the English name is of German origin (see 1 above); the census of 1881 records, amongst others, a Herman Blocker and a John Blocker, both born in Germany.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of blocker Families in the US in 1920
Number of blocker families
 61-119
 21-60		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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