First name origin & meaning: Middle English: Tailor First name variations: Tuckman, Tuck Last name origins & meanings:
- 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’.
Famous people with this last name:
Tanya Tucker This name appears in the following lists:
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