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Tucker Name Meaning
English (chiefly southwestern England and South Wales):
occupational name for a fuller, from an agent derivative of Middle
English tuck(en) ‘to full cloth’ (Old English tucian
‘to torment’). This was the term used for the process in the Middle
Ages in southwestern England, and the surname is more common there
than elsewhere. Compare Fuller and Walker.Americanized form of Jewish To(c)ker (see Tokarz).Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tuachair
‘descendant of Tuachar’, a personal name composed of the
elements tuath ‘people’ + car ‘dear’, ‘beloved’.Possibly also an Americanized form of German Tucher,
from an occupational name for a cloth maker or merchant, from an agent
derivative of Middle High German tuoch ‘cloth’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Tucker Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Tucker families
 604 - 1,206  202 - 603 |
 1 - 201  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Tucker families
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1,524 - 3,046 509 - 1,523 |
1 - 508 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Tucker families
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28 - 54 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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