Tucker is a boy's name of English origin meaning “cloth-weaver.” In 2024 it was given to 1,781 boys in the United States.
Tucker at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
English & American
Meaning
“cloth-weaver”
Pronunciation
/ˈtʌkə(ɹ)/
About the name Tucker
Tucker belongs to the English & American tradition. Its meaning — “cloth-weaver” — is the sense carried by its English roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Tucker first appears in Social Security records in 1884. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #173 in 2016, and in 2024 1,781 babies received the name — 53,133 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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