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Dierker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Chris Dierker (born 1994), Vietnamese-American basketball player; Hugh Dierker (1890–1975), American film director and producer; Larry Dierker (born 1946), American baseball player, manager, and broadcaster
Dirk is a male given name of Dutch origin. It is a traditional diminutive of the Dutch name Diederik. The meaning of the name is "the people's ruler", composed of þeud ("people") and ric ("power"). Dirk may also be a surname. It is cognate to French Thierry, German Dietrich and Gothic Theoderic.
At this early period of history, however, the surname existed in a different form from the modern day; de la Dykes, literally meaning 'of the Dykes', indicating the region from where the family came. A charter, bearing the first known recorded instance of the surname, comes from either the reign of Henry III or Edward I , though the exact date ...
Duquesne or Duchesne (/ dj uː ˈ k eɪ n / dew-KAYN, French:; old spelling Du Quesne, American spelling DuQuesne) is a family name derived from a northern dialectal form of French (Norman and Picard) meaning du chêne in French ("of the oak").
Recorded as both Tucker and Tooker, the derivation of the English occupational surname comes from the Old English, pre-7th century verb tucian, meaning "to torment".It would have been for a fuller, also known as a "walker", one who softened freshly woven cloth by beating and tramping on it in water.
The oldest public record of the surname dates to 1176. [3] In the 2010 United States Census, Ward was the 79th most common surname. [4] It is the 78th most common surname in Ireland. [5] It was the 31st most common surname in the 1991 UK census and 40th in 2001 census, [6] and in 2007, was found to be the most common surname in Lutterworth ...
Le Fucker's unusual surname has attracted interest since it was highlighted by Carl Buck in his 1949 Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages. Buck suggested that the surname derived from the Middle English word Fike or Fyke meaning "to fidget" [ 2 ] – in other words, "John the Fidgeter" or perhaps more ...
The origin of this peculiar arms was written about by Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Baronet, in 1764: The account of their origin, given by Mr. Nisbet , and other historians, is, that in the reign of king Kenneth II , a kinsman, and favourite of that king, being taken prisoner by the Picts , was put to death, and hung up upon a gallows in view of the ...