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crocker Name Meaning and History

  1. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of the various places in Normandy, France, called Crèvecoeur (‘heartbreak’), from Old French creve(r) ‘to break or destroy’, ‘to die’ + ceur ‘heart’, a reference to the infertility and unproductiveness of the land.
  2. English: occupational name for a potter, Middle English crockere, an agent derivative of Middle English crock ‘pot’ (Old English croc(ca)).
  3. Americanized spelling of German Krocker.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of crocker Families in the US in 1920
Number of crocker families
 207-412
 70-206		 1-69
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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