as a Last Name
- 12,589
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Hacker
Meaning & Origins
German (also Häcker), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a butcher, possibly also for a woodcutter, from an agent derivative of Middle High German hacken, Dutch hakken ‘to hack’, ‘to chop’. The Jewish surname may be from Yiddish heker ‘butcher’, holtsheker ‘woodcutter’ (German Holzhacker), or valdheker ‘lumberjack’, or from German Hacker ‘woodchopper’.
| 2,476th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 12,589
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Hacker per capita
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