Tucker

What Tucker means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Tucker yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Steady in the US: #186 in 2015 and #181 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Tucker?

US: Steady: #186 in 2015, #181 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2150 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 2,422 boys got the name (#176 that year). First in the US records in 1884.

How common

• About 1 in 851 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 19,424 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VT (8.25 per 1,000 boys), WY (6.42 per 1,000 boys), WV (4.55 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Tucker is #181 in the US and #1798 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.5% of US babies named Tucker were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Decker117 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Tucker

Boys

• Easton#110“east + settlement”^*
• Braxton#172Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #172 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Zayne#473Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1982, with 6 babies
• Grayson#51“steward”^*
• Holden#297Editor’s note Steady in the US: #291 in 2015 and #297 in 2025
• Paxton#338“settlement of (a person named) *Pæcc”^*

For a sister

• Hadley#121“heath + woodland clearing”^*
• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Kensley#741Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1987, with 8 babies
• Mckinley#712Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1978, with 5 babies
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Tucker’s. Rank is US 2025.