The knickerbocker Surname
knickerbocker Name Meaning and History
Americanized spelling of the Dutch occupational name
Knickerbacker ‘marble baker’, i.e., a baker of children’s clay
marbles. This lowly occupation became synonymous with the patrician
class in NYC through Washington Irving’s attribution of his History
of New York (1809) to a fictitious author named Diedrich
Knickerbocker. By the late 1850s the term had also come to denote a
type of loose breeches gathered below the knee, evidently because of
the resemblance of the garment to the breeches of the Dutchmen in
Cruikshank’s illustrations to Irving’s book.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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