Family name origins & meanings
- South German and Dutch : from the Germanic personal name Notker (Notger), composed of the elements not ‘battle throng’ + gār, gēr ‘spear’.
- North German : nickname for a complainer, from Low German nöckern ‘to moan or grumble’.
- South German (Nöcker) : topographic name from Tyrolean nock, nogg ‘(rounded) hill’, ‘rock’.