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Tucker

in Kentucky

There are 3,759 people with the last name "Tucker" in Kentucky.

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Ranking in Kentucky

NameRank
Tucker 84
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  1. is 80th most common Mattingly
  2. is 81st most common Ward
  3. is 82nd most common Burton
  4. is 83rd most common Brooks
  5. is 84th most common Tucker
  6. is 85th most common Duncan
  7. is 86th most common Russell
  8. is 87th most common Sanders
  9. is 88th most common West

Similar Names and Nicknames

Tuck, Tuckett, Tacker, Tuckey, Tuckerman, Tikker, Tecker, Tuckman, Tuckness, Tukker

Most Common First Names for Tucker

James, David, Robert, William, Michael, Larry, Charles, John, Barbara, Jerry

Meaning & History

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.

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’.

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