Dutch and German: occupational name for a stonemason or someone
who used or made pickaxes or chisel, from bicke ‘pickaxe’,
‘chisel’ + the agent suffix -er. Compare Bick.English: occupational name for a beekeeper, Middle English
biker (from Old English bicere). Bees were important
in medieval England because their honey provided the only means of
sweetening food (sugar being a more recent importation); honey was
also used in preserving.English: habitational name from Bicker in
Lincolnshire or Byker in Tyne and Wear, both named with the Old
English preposition bi ‘by’, ‘beside’ + Old Norse
kjarr ‘wet ground’, ‘brushwood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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