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Tucker Name Meaning, Origins & History

Tucker

Pronunciation: TUK-er

Meaning Fabric pleater Origin Old English Gender Boy
BOYS RANK
#181
TREND
19
GIRLS RANK
#9,420
TREND
57
Peak Years
2014, 2016, 2013
Lowest Years
1884, 1894, 1913
Energy Archetype
Sensitive & Diplomatic

Rank shows the name’s position among U.S. baby names for each gender in 2025. Trend shows how many places it rose or fell since 2024. Rank 1 is the most popular. Based on U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) data. Peak and lowest years are based on the number of boys named Tucker in the available records.

Fun Facts About the Name Tucker

  • More than 55 thousand babies named Tucker: U.S. records list 55,545 babies given the name Tucker from 1880 through 2025. Even 404 girls received the name Tucker - about 1 girl for every 136 boys.

What Does the Name Tucker Mean?

Tucker is an English occupational name meaning "cloth fuller." It comes from Middle English tuckere, an agent noun from the verb tucken, "to full cloth," with the suffix -er meaning "one who does." A fuller was a worker who cleaned and thickened woven wool by soaking, beating, and pressing it. The literal sense is "one who fulls cloth," not a general word for a tailor or weaver. The name is chiefly a surname that later came into use as a given name in English-speaking countries.

Tucker Name History & Origins

Tucker began as an English surname in the Middle Ages. Occupational surnames became common in England after the Norman Conquest, when bynames helped distinguish people who shared a first name. A tucker worked in the cloth industry, which was a major part of the medieval English economy; the surname was passed down from a person who held that trade. English colonists later brought the surname to North America, and it also spread to other English-speaking countries.

As a first name, Tucker is used in English-speaking countries, especially the United States, as part of the broad fashion for taking surnames as given names. The name also appears in literature: Tucker Mouse is a character in George Selden's children's novel The Cricket in Times Square (1960). This literary use is separate from the name's origin as an English occupational surname.

How Popular is the Name Tucker?

Tucker recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2014. Its best rank was #173 in 2016.

U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.

Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.

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How the Name Tucker Shapes Your Personality and Life?

You like to control everyone within your influence, to shape things to your own liking. If positive, you develop high spirituality, as you have a God's protection. You are sensitive, affectionate, imaginative and cooperative, spiritually aware and prone to self-sacrifice. You can keep secrets and are a good diplomat. You may have healing and psychic powers. Emergencies may raise your intuitive abilities in order to resolve conflict or situation. You become very creative under the pressure, and have quite original ideas to make the best out of it.

You find the best contentment in life when you own your own home and provide well for your family and loved ones. You have a great sense of responsibility and duty. You are comforting, appreciative and affectionate. Your obligation in life is to hold justice and truth, and if you follow the Law, you can find the great happiness and satisfaction.

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