How common is the surname Locker?

2,894 people in the United States had the surname Locker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,685 Americans. It ranked 10,987th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Locker?

Gerlinde Locker, Austrian actress.

Where is the surname Locker most common?

Wikidata records people named Locker in Austria.

Is the surname Locker getting more or less common?

More common. 2,697 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,894 in 2010, up 7.3%.

The surname Locker

A German nickname surname, carried by 2,894 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Locker is more common than 93.2% of them.

Origin

German origin

* As an English surname, from the noun locker. Compare Lock. * Also as an English surname, variant of Luker. * As an Austrian German surname Löcker, nickname for a buffoon, from Middle High German lecken (“to kick, jump”), of obscure origin, but compare Latin locusta (“grasshopper”) or Old English læccan (“to seize”). * As a Slovene surname, Americanized/Germanized from Lokar, from loka (“water meadow”), from Proto-Slavic *lǫka. Compare Loker.

Locker is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,894 people named Locker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,685 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,697.

#10,987

rank among US surnames

2,894

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+7.3%

change since 2000 (was #10,848)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,979	Lucier	2,897	106,574
#10,983	Mirabal	2,896	106,611
#10,986	Repp	2,895	106,648
#10,987	Locker	2,894	106,685
#10,993	Chupp	2,893	106,722

Who is named Locker

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

89% of people named Locker identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Black (not Hispanic) 6.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Lockers

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Gerlinde Locker
Austrian actress, born 1938

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Locker

Locker has the Soundex code L260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L260.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Locker come from?: * As an English surname, from the noun locker. Compare Lock. * Also as an English surname, variant of Luker. * As an Austrian German surname Löcker, nickname for a buffoon, from Middle High German lecken (“to kick, jump”), of obscure origin, but compare Latin locusta (“grasshopper”) or Old English…
How common is the surname Locker?: 2,894 people in the United States had the surname Locker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,685 Americans. It ranked 10,987th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Locker?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Locker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Locker?: Gerlinde Locker, Austrian actress.
Where is the surname Locker most common?: Wikidata records people named Locker in Austria.
What type of surname is Locker?: Locker is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Locker getting more or less common?: More common. 2,697 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,894 in 2010, up 7.3%.