Recker Family History
Recker Name Meaning
North German, Frisian, and Dutch: from a form of the personal
name Richard, or a variant of the Dutch name Rijker,
composed of the Germanic elements ric ‘power(ful)’ +
hari, heri ‘army’.North German:
topographic name from Middle Low German recke ‘stretch’,
‘route’, ‘hedge’, or a habitational name for someone from Recke, near
Osnabrück.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Recker Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Recker families
 28 - 53  10 - 27 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Recker families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Recker families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Recker Family Origin
Recker Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Recker
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Recker Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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