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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Rücker) : nickname from Middle High German rucken ‘to move or draw’.
  • North German : nickname from Middle Low German rucker ‘thief’, ‘greedy or acquisitive person’.
  • German : from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name Rudiger.
  • English : variant of Rocker.

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