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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (also Böcker) and Dutch : reduced form of Bödeker ‘cooper’ (see Boedeker).
  • North German (also Böcker) and Dutch : habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany named with Middle Low German boke, böke ‘beech tree’ (see Boeckmann).

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