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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Lucker in Northumberland, probably named from Old English luh ‘pool’ + Old Norse kjarr ‘marsh’.
  • English : occupational name for someone who had to watch or look after something, typically a watchman or a keeper of animals, Middle English lokere (a derivative of Middle English loke(n), luke(n) ‘to look’, Old English lōcian).

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