Ecker Family History
Ecker Name Meaning
Dutch and German: from a medieval personal name, probably a
short form of Eckhard (see Eckert).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.Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant
of Eck 1.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational name
from a Yiddish dialect eker ‘(wood)cutter’, ‘chopper’.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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Name Distribution of Ecker Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ecker families
 83 - 164  28 - 82 |
 1 - 27  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ecker families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Ecker last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ecker Family Origin
Ecker Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Ecker
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Ecker Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Ecker Civil War Service Records
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