Family name origins & meanings
- Belgian : habitational name from a place called Lokeren in East Flanders.
- Altered spelling of North German Lockemann, a habitational name for someone from a place named with the element Lock-, for example Lockhausen.
- Govert Loockerman was a prominent trader and businessman in New Netherland, who had come over in 1646 as a representative of the Verbrugge family, a private trading company.