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Tucker

As a boy's name, Tucker traces back to Middle English, where it is understood to mean "Middle English occupational surname". It shows no signs of slowing down, reaching new highs in the 2010s. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. 2014 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.

Middle EnglishMiddle English occupational surname
Etymology"Cloth fuller"
Births by decade
1900s
6
1910s
65
1920s
72
1930s
92
1940s
130
1950s
143
1960s
198
1970s
526
1980s
1,560
1990s
7,100
2000s
12,494
2010s
17,144
Peaked in the 2010s · 39,530 total U.S. births since 1900