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The ecker Surname

ecker Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch and German: from a medieval personal name, probably a short form of Eckhard (see Eckert).
  2. German: topographic name for someone who lived in a corner house or kept a corner shop, from Middle High German ecke ‘corner’ + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Eck 1.
  4. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational name from a Yiddish dialect eker ‘(wood)cutter’, ‘chopper’.
  5. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Ecker ‘beechnut’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ecker Families in the US in 1920
Number of ecker families
 83-164
 28-82		 1-27
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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