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The rucker Surname

rucker Name Meaning and History

  1. German (also Rücker): nickname from Middle High German rucken ‘to move or draw’.
  2. North German: nickname from Middle Low German rucker ‘thief’, ‘greedy or acquisitive person’.
  3. German: from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name Rudiger.
  4. English: variant of Rocker.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rucker Families in the US in 1920
Number of rucker families
 182-362
 61-181		 1-60
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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