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harker Name Meaning and History

  1. English (mainly northeastern England and West Yorkshire):
  2. habitational name from either of two places in Cumbria, or from one in the parish of Halsall, near Ormskirk, Lancashire. The Cumbrian places are probably named from Middle English hart ‘male deer’ + kerr ‘marshland’. The one in Lancashire has the same second element, while the first is probably Old English har ‘gray’ or hara ‘hare’.
  3. nickname for an eavesdropper or busybody, from an agent derivative of Middle English herkien ‘to listen’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of harker Families in the US in 1920
Number of harker families
 55-108
 19-54		 1-18
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James Harker of Whitby, Yorkshire & USA Ralph_Harker 2
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Jacob F. Harker from Germany tjohnson9359 16
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