Docker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Docker, Cumbria and Lancashire ('herdsman's hut in the valley')
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɑkɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Docker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 141K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2M
- AUAustralia≈1 in 105K
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 Docker 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 Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)
≈470 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Döcker in DE Germany, AT Austria.
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)
person from Docker, Cumbria and Lancashire ('herdsman's hut in the valley')
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Docker 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 141K | listed | Docker | 108 |
| AU Australia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Docker | 64 |
| US United States | 165 | 1 in 2M | 206 | Docker | 117 |
| DE Germany | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Döcker | 20 |
| CA Canada | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 636K | — | Docker | 29 |
| AT Austria | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Döcker | 7 |
| FI Finland | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 463K | — | Docker | 1 |
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: the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Docker 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 English, from Docker, Lancashire or Westmorland; also nickname from ME dok ‘cut’ + hare. First attested John Docker 1293 FFY
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, and Cumb. so called from ON dokk hollow, valley + erg shieling or dairy building (of Celt, origin). The name is now found chiefly in the W Midlands. Dogerty see Doherty
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, One who performs docking, as of tails.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, docker; longshoreman
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)
- Ernest Brougham Dockerb. 1842AU(1842-1923) judge and photographer
- Ralph Dockerb. 1855GBEnglish cricketer (1855-1910)
- Ludford Dockerb. 1860GBEnglish cricketer (1860-1940)
- Dudley Dockerb. 1862GBEnglish cricketer, businessman and philanthropist (1862-1944)
- Cyril Dockerb. 1884AUAustralian cricketer (1884-1975)
- Bernard Dockerb. 1896British businessman
- Ian Dockerb. 1969GBEnglish footballer (born 1969)
- Adam Dockerb. 1985PKEnglish footballer
- Mitchell Dockerb. 1986AUAustralian cyclist
- Jacob Bernard-Dockerb. 2000CACanadian ice hockey player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 206 | #84,631 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 165 | #107,669 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 162 | #114,613 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Docker mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Docker, Cumbria and Lancashire ('herdsman's hut in the valley') Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Docker?
- A machine transcription gives /dɑkɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Docker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 466 people named Docker in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled docker.
- How common is the name Docker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 165 people named Docker in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Docker?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dockerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Docker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.