Last name origins & meanings:
- Dutch and German: from a medieval personal name, probably a
short form of Eckhard (see Eckert).
- German: topographic name for someone who lived in a corner house or kept a
corner shop, from Middle High German ecke ‘corner’ + the suffix
-er, denoting an inhabitant.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant
of Eck 1.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational name
from a Yiddish dialect eker ‘(wood)cutter’, ‘chopper’.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German
Ecker ‘beechnut’.
| 
Pregnancy
Save Name
E-mail
Print
