Hocker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: One who hocks or pawns an item
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Hocker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- 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)
- Record sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
3,229 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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 in the world
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,229 | 1 in 103K | 3.2K | Hocker | 285 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Höcker | 70 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Hocker | 47 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Hocker | 36 |
| LR Liberia | #317 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Hocker | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Hocker | 2 |
| BB Barbados | #171 | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Hoecker | 2 |
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 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)- Johann Wilhelm Hockerb. 1638DEGerman theologian
- Nikolaus Hockerb. 1822DEGerman journalist, writer and economic historian (1822-1900)
- Willie Kavanaugh Hockerb. 1862USdesigner of the Flag of Arkansas
- Gerald Hockerb. 1948USAmerican politician
- Frank Hockerb. 1956DEGerman musician (1956–2023)
- Frederick M. Hockerb. 1961SEb. April 21, 1961; Ph.D. from Texas A&M Univ
- Gero Clemens Hockerb. 1975DEGerman politician
- Zach Hockerb. 1991USAmerican football player
- Cole Hockerb. 2001USAmerican middle-distance runner
- Thomas HockerUSbasketball 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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #9,989 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,559 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,271 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 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.
- In which country does Hocker have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hockerThe 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, “Hocker” — the 171st most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.