Hocker

surname · Latin script

Meaning: One who hocks or pawns an item (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Pronunciation:Explore pronunciation →

Hocker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,229 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.

  • LRLiberia≈1 in 25Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 44K
  • USUnited States1 in 103K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hocker itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,229 people, 2010

Record sources
285 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

Liberia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Höcker in DE Germany and Hoecker in BB Barbados.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

One who hocks or pawns an item.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Hocker is found

(measured from records)

Hocker counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Hocker is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3,2291 in 103K3.2KHocker285
DE Germany—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 44K—Höcker70
GB United Kingdom—≈480 est.≈1 in 144K—Hocker47
CA Canada—≈270 est.≈1 in 154K—Hocker36
LR Liberia#317≈230 est.≈1 in 25K—Hocker1
SG Singapore—≈73 est.≈1 in 83K—Hocker2
BB Barbados#171≈44 est.≈1 in 6.4K—Hoecker2

3,229 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Hocker is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Guatemala

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Höcker

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Höcker

  • Swedish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Höcker

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy

    Also written Höcker

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Hocker is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, stool (of any height)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, Berufsname zu mhd. hucke/hocker 'Kleinhändler, Krämer'. 270 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In gsw, A small stool.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Luxembourgish, stool

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
180018501900195020002050Nikolaus Hocker, b. 1822Gero Clemens Hocker, b. 1975Cole Hocker, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Hocker,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hocker mean, and where does it come from?
One who hocks or pawns an item. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Hocker?
In the etymology graph, Stuhl is a form of the same name in other languages.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Hocker?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Hocker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hocker. After it come Germany, United Kingdom, Canada and Liberia; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Hocker?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,229 people named Hocker in 2010, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
How common is Hocker compared with other names?
In Barbados, Hocker is the 171st most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hocker” — ranked 9559th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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