Tucker, a surname-turned-given-name, was originally used as an occupational name given to a cloth fuller. The name was ultimately derived fro the Old English word tucian, meaning "offend" or "torment." It first appeared as a given name on the Social Security Administration's top 1,000 for boy names in 1978, but didn't crack the top-200 until 2011 and recently fell back out of the top-200 in 2023. It's one of the many names that end in -er that are growing in popularity today, such as Oliver, Harper, Asher, Carter, Parker, Cooper and Walker.
