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The barker Surname

barker Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English bark(en) ‘to tan’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.
  2. English: occupational name for a shepherd, Anglo-Norman French bercher (Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name.
  3. Altered spelling of German Barger or Berger.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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barker Family Facts

Distribution of barker Families in the US in 1920
Number of barker families
 511-1020
 171-510		 1-170
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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