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The decker Surname

decker Name Meaning and History

  1. German: occupational name for a roofer (thatcher, tiler, slater, or shingler) or a carpenter or builder, from an agent derivative of Middle High German decke ‘covering’, a word which was normally used to refer to roofs, but sometimes also to other sorts of covering; modern German Decke still has the twin senses ‘ceiling’ and ‘blanket’.
  2. Dutch: variant of Dekker, cognate with 1.
  3. English: variant of Dicker.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of decker Families in the US in 1920
Number of decker families
 932-1861
 311-931		 1-310
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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