as a Last Name
- 180,778
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Tucker
Meaning & Origins
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
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 180,778
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Guam
- has the most people named Tucker per capita
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