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Meaning & Origins
Danish equivalent of Katherine. It was first introduced to the English-speaking world by Scandinavian settlers in America; it has been used in Britain only since the 1940s, but had become very popular by the 1960s.
| 24th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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 tūcian ‘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.
| 136th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Karan, Karrie, Kar, Karren, Karrin, Karin
Tuck, Tuckett, Tacker, Tuckey, Tuckerman, Tikker, Tecker, Tuckman, Tuckness, Tukker
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